
01/26/2025
In the United States, we’re living longer in sickness, not in health.
A 20-year-old in 1998 could expect to live about 58 more years, while a 20-year-old in 2006 could look forward to 59 more years. However, the 20-year-old from the 1990s might live 10 of those years with chronic disease, whereas now it’s more like 13 years.
It feels like one step forward, three steps back. The researchers from the study “Mortality and morbidity trends: is there compression of morbidity?” noted that we’re living two fewer functional years—that is, years we’re no longer able to perform basic life activities, such as walking a quarter of a mile, standing or sitting for two hours without having to lie down, or standing without special equipment (PMID: 21135070). In other words, we’re living longer, but we’re living sicker––at least we were until 2014, when life expectancy started to decline in the United States. Now we’re living shorter and sicker.
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