life expectancy

Women Face Tough Challenges in Retirement … But Can Overcome Them!

Posted on 04/30/2013 by | AARP Blog Author | Comments

Public Policy Institute | WorkThe writer Oscar Wilde said “When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” This is a great insight into how vital money can be at older ages — when we have a much more difficult time earning money or just can no longer work. A recent report from AARP’s Public Policy Institute, An Uphill Climb: Women Face Greater Obstacles to Retirement Security, highlights …

Study Shows Declining Life Span for Some Women

Posted on 03/5/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthBy Mike Stobbe, Medical Writer, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A new study offers more compelling evidence that life expectancy for some U.S. women is actually falling, a disturbing trend that experts can’t explain. The latest research found that women age 75 and younger are dying at higher rates than previous years in nearly half of the nation’s counties — many of them rural and in the South and West. Curiously, for men, life expectancy has held steady …

People Worldwide Living Longer, But Sicker, Study Finds

Posted on 12/13/2012 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin TodayBy Maria Cheng, Medical Writer, The Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Nearly everywhere around the world, people are living longer and fewer children are dying. But increasingly, people are grappling with the diseases and disabilities of modern life, according to the most expansive global look so far at life expectancy and the biggest health threats. The last comprehensive study was in 1990 and the top health problem then was the death of children under 5 — more than 10 million …

New Health Test: Sit on the Floor. Now Get Up

Posted on 12/13/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthHow long are you going to live? Here’s one way to predict: How easily can you get up from sitting on the floor? A new Brazilian study  just published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology found that middle-aged and elderly adults who needed to use their hands and their knees to get up and down were almost seven times more likely to die within six years, compared with those who could get up and down without support, NBC News …

Want To Live Longer? Drink Coffee

Posted on 05/17/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthHere’s some sweet news to add to your morning coffee:  Regular coffee drinkers are likely to live longer, says the largest study ever done on the subject. Even better, it doesn’t matter whether you drink regular or decaf. To examine the relationship between coffee and health, researchers with the National Institutes of Health looked at the coffee drinking habits of more than 400,000 AARP members ages 50 to 71 between 1995 and 1996, then followed them until 2008. Those who …

The Takeaway: Why Aren’t American Women Gaining In Life Expectancy As Fast As Men?

Posted on 04/23/2012 by | Brooklyn, NY | Comments

News RoundupsWomen Lag in Life Expectancy Gains: American women are still expected to outlive their male counterparts by four years, but gains in women’s longevity have slowed, according to a new study of mortality data. Between 1989 and 2009, life expectancy for U.S. men improved by an average of 4.6 years, while women’s life expectancy improved by just 2.7 years. In many U.S. counties, women’s life spans were shorter than they were 20 years ago.

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