Adults with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives compared with their
less educated peers. The disparities are large and widening. We posit that understanding …

The past century was a period of increasing life expectancy throughout the age range. This
resulted in more people living to old age and to spending more years at the older ages. It is …

Objective. This paper reviews trends in mortality and morbidity to evaluate whether there has
been a compression of morbidity. Methods. Review of recent research and analysis of recent …

Although the consequences of population aging for growth in health expenditures have
been widely investigated, research on this topic is rather fragmented. Therefore, these …

This article updates trends from five national US surveys to determine whether the
prevalence of activity limitations among the older population continued to decline in the first …

Objectives. To examine changes in active life expectancy in the United States over 30 years
for older men and women (aged≥ 65 years). Methods. We used the 1982 and 2004 …

The success of the current biomedical paradigm based on a “disease model” may be limited
in the future because of large number of comorbidities inflicting older people. In recent …

Background Downward trends in activity limitations among the older US population have
recently plateaued, while activity limitation among the pre-retirement population has …

Exceptional longevity represents an extreme phenotype. Current centenarians are survivors
of a cohort who display delayed onset of age-related diseases and/or resistance to …

I discuss the health transition in the United States, bringing new data to bear on health
indicators and investigating the changing relationship between health, income, and the …