Nusrat Jahan
Inspecting 30 years of health studies, Vici Freedman and his colleagues from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, found that 85-year-old men can now hope to have an average of four more years of a generally solid life – more than the average of only two in 1982.What about women? 81 is the life expectancy for women in the US, which is five years more than it is for men. A woman’s life, by and large, is longer than that of a man – however what sort of life is this? Thirty years of US health records have uncovered that women regularly spend a large portion of their later years in weakness and poor health. The physical state in which ladies spend their extending ages appears to have quit enhancing subsequent to the year 2000. In any case, the team has found that the normal strength of aged men kept on enhancing after 2000, while that of more aged women did not. In the 1980s and 1990s, improvements in medical care helped inhibit a lot of diseases, successfully reducing the time old individuals spent in sickness. Pretty much the same as in 1982, 85-year-old ladies today can just hope to have another two or three years of a healthy and active life.
“Older women can no longer expect to live more active years than older men, despite their longer lives,” says Freedman. On the other hand, just as many women as men started smoking in the 1960s, and those women are now in later life. Almost the same thing seems to be happening in Europe and Japan. Women are also more likely to ageing-associated diseases such as arthritis, depression, brittle bones and dementia.