One of the challenges of longer life expectancies is dealingwith an increased number of people suffering from conditions thatcome with old age, particularly dementia.

But the good news is that just as people are living longer,those who develop dementia do it much later in life than those ofprevious generations.

A study from the New England Journal of Medicine finds that theaverage age at which a person is diagnosed with dementia is now 85,up from 80 four decades ago. The study was based on more than 5,000people over the age of 60 from 1975 until the early part of thisdecade.

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