areas that bear on the Medicare problem: the number of the elderly, their health status, use of medical care, labor force … expectancy at age 65; 2) a very large increase since 1976 in real per capita health care expenditures on the elderly relative to … expenditures on persons under age 65; 3) a cross-sectional increase with age in per capita health care expenditures that is …

"This short primer of health information is designed as a concise but effective health care guide for seniors 60 years … and older. Seniors today find themselves in the digital age where rapid changes in health care delivery are confusing and …

combines the 7th wave of the SHARE panel data on health at an older age and US occupational O*NET data. With these unique data … it first quantifies the impact of entire career arduousness on health at typical retirement age, relative to other key … determinants (gender, childhood health, parental longevity). It then estimates the degree of retirement age differentiation that …