Abstract
As our population ages, survivors will approach the limit of aging, or the life-span. As a result of primary and preventive medicine, heathier life styles, and decreased health risk, the population of the United States and other Western societies is trending toward this limit. A comparative study performed on life expectancy of 80-year-old persons in Western countries showed that American octogenarian men and women are expected to live 7.0 and 9.1 more years, respectively. In England the survival of octogenarians was 6.2 and 8.1 years, respectively; in France 6.7 and 8.6 years, respectively; in Sweden 6.5 and 8.3 years, respectively; and in Japan, 6.5 and 8.9 years, respectively.1
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Zenilman, M.E. (2001). Surgery in the Frail Elderly: Nursing Home Patients. In: Rosenthal, R.A., Zenilman, M.E., Katlic, M.R. (eds) Principles and Practice of Geriatric Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3432-4_16
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