Healthy old age

Thomas B. L. Kirkwood
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Thomas B. L. Kirkwood: Thomas B. L. Kirkwood is at the Institute for Ageing and Health, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5PL, UK. tom.kirkwood@ncl.ac.uk

Nature, 2008, vol. 455, issue 7214, 739-740

Abstract: Do longer lives mean that growing numbers of us will spend more time in a state of high-cost dependency? Evidence from one elderly cohort suggests that excessive levels of disability are far from inevitable.

Date: 2008
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