Lakdawalla, Darius N.; Goldman, Dana P.; Bhattacharya, Jay - 2022
A fair amount of research suggests that health has been improving among the elderly over the past 10 to 15 years … that health among the young has been deteriorating, at the same time that the elderly have been becoming healthier … the National Health Interview Survey, we find that, from 1984 to 1996, the rate of disability among those in their 40s …