Life expectancy in the US peaked 10 years ago, so I'm always amused to see attempts to define "old age" upwards.
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Same. It's kind of adorable.
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@JLong People in their 90s are often healthier than those twenty years younger.
It's apparently due to selective survival.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-oldest-old-are-astonishingly-healthy/
@JLong There's a large segment of the population with poor access to healthcare, and we're at or near the top in morbid obesity and opioid abuse.
@Coctaanatis Interesting. I don't have a subscription so i poked around a couple of studies about selective survival. It occurs to me that those lucky ones who dodge alzheimers, heart disease etc have less hospital visits/procedures and take less meds, too. Nothing against that but I read somewhere that the US uses 75% of the worlds meds yet has the lowest life expectancy in the west.