Women enjoy longer life, whereas mean healthier
Posted on: 27/Jun/2015 9:47:54 AM
According to a new study, women are found to live longer whereas men live healthier. The study was conducted at The King`s College London which states that women were likely to live for almost 100 years compared to men who live healthier. Men had comparatively lesser chronic illness as compared to women.
Women had 4 times higher possibility of living up to 100 years than men. Between the years 1990 and 2013, there is found to be 50 per cent surge in number of women to reach 100 years of age. Similarly, during the same time period, men had 30 per cent chance of living up to 100 years.
Though just fewer men lived up to 100, they lived healthy, whereas women were prone to multiple chronic illness and other disabilities like fracture, deterioration of vision or hearing, etc than men.
More than serious illness like diabetes or cancer, less common and less life-threatening conditions like arthritis or musculoskeletal diseases were found common both in men and women who were involved in the study.
This increase in total number of centenarians has got a huge impact on the use of healthcare services by the elderly. Lead author of the study, Nisha Hazra says with the increase in possibility of living up to 100 in more people, the need for quality healthcare services increases too.
