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OECD: what about the aging in health?

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Jan. 16, 2025 09:10

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Since 2005, life expectancy in the EU has increased by more than a year, but years lived in health have increased by less than a year. In Poland, we have an even bigger problem: although life expectancy has also increased by a year, but the number of years lived in health has not only not increased, but has decreased - clearly by more than a year.

"Living longer, living healthier? Promoting healthy longevity in Europe." - that's the title of the second main theme of the latest OECD and European Commission report "Health at a Glance. Europe 2024." Published last November, the report confirms that European societies are at least living longer than they did two decades earlier, but in the vast majority of countries, healthy aging still remains a challenge, not an implemented plan.

Life expectancy for people at 65 in 2005 for the EU was 18.3 years, by 2022 it was already 19.5 (onl...

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