Living longer but not necessarily healthier

People around the globe are living longer but not necessarily healthier according to Mayo Clinic research. A study of 183 World Health Organisation (WHO) member countries found those additional years are increasingly lived with disease. The research is published in JAMA Network Open.

In another recent study, researchers from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies and the University of Oxford found that the rates of chronic disease, obesity and disability had increased across successive generations during the 20th century. The study published in the Journals of Gerontology, found that baby boomers (those born in the late 1940s and 1950s) were more likely than the generations before them to have cancer, heart disease, lung disease, diabetes and high cholesterol as they reached their 50s and 60s.