ANALYSE – In 2023, 65-year-old men can still expect to live 10.5 years without disability and women 12 years, according to a new government study.
The French are living longer and longer in good health. DREES, the ministerial statistics institute in the fields of health and social affairs, has just calculated that in 2023 a 65-year-old man could remain on average another 10.5 years without disability and 18.5 years without serious disability. . For women, the deadlines are 12 and 15.8 years respectively. This is the number of years an individual can expect to go without being limited by a health problem in their daily activities.
Since 2008, disability-free life expectancy has increased by 1 year and 10 months for men and 1 year and 11 months for women. Better still, this progression is faster than the increase in life expectancy. As a result, even after the age of 65, the French now spend more than half of their lives in good health, which was not the case fifteen years ago. « These developments reflect the decline in age from which…
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