People Are Living Longer, With More Disabilities Than Ever

skade88 writes "Worldwide, people are living longer. Their lives are starting to look more like the lives of Americans: too much food is a problem, death in childhood is becoming less common, and so on. Yet with a population that lives through what would once have killed us, disabilities are starting to become the norm. A research report from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has a good glimpse into the new emerging world we find ourselves in." The Guardian has a nice visualization of the mortality data (but take note of shifting scales on the Y-axis).

Comments

Re:Not too much food. Too much BAD food.

[Paracelcus]

Not like "the good old days" when we all ate organic food and lived to the ripe old age of forty!