Resumen de Women live longer than men but in poorer health
Vicki Freedman and her colleagues at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, have found that the average health of older men continued to improve after 2000, whereas that of older women did not. Examining 30 years of health surveys up to 2011, the team found that 85-year-old men can now expect to have an average of four more years of active life--up from an average of just two and a half in 1982. But in women there has been no change. Just as in 1982, 85-year-old women today can only expect to have another two and a half years of active life
