Health, Life Expectancy, and Health Care Spending among the Elderly
Open Access
- 11 September 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 349 (11), 1048-1055
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa020614
Abstract
Life expectancy among the elderly has been improving for many decades, and there is evidence that health among the elderly is also improving. We estimated the relation of health status at 70 years of age to life expectancy and to cumulative health care expenditures from the age of 70 until death.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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