Health Status and Life Expectancy: Did They Improve or Decline?

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There is a significant improvement in the elderly human population’s health status and life expectancy regarding the recent trend. Most importantly, several indicators demonstrate a sharp rise in the adults’ life span within the developed world since the mid-20th century. For instance, all the individuals attaining 100 years have never shifted higher than it has done recently. From the optimistic perspective, the delaying of severe degenerative illnesses to higher ages via adopting acceptable lifestyle behaviors, even with a life expectancy increase, might condense the morbidity years into reduced portions towards the life’s end. Regarding the pessimistic context, the reduction in mortality rates (and instead, increase in life expectancy) is because of a decline in the degenerative diseases’ lethality without a fall in their occurrence. The direct outcome is a rise in disabilities and chronic sickness prevalence in the human...