A new study shows that women’s longer life expectancy comes at a price. On average, women spend a greater proportion of their later years suffering from disabilities.
A review of a number of studies conducted on Medicare beneficiaries over the past 34 years found that the average 65-year-old woman can expect to spend 30 percent of her remaining life with a disability that prevents her from a fully active life.
Men, in contrast, live shorter lives, but only spend 19 percent of their Medicare years disabled. The study showed that male health and longevity has increased far more dramatically over the past three decades than that of women.
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