Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We find that for each year of later birth, health deficits decline by on … show this trend by computing a health deficit index for a panel of 14 European Countries and six waves of the Survey of … of human aging. For example, the level of health deficits experienced at age 65 by individuals born 1920 is predicted to …

health behavior. For that purpose we set up a physiologically founded model of health deficit accumulation and calibrate it … using recent insights from gerontology. From fitting life cycle health expenditure and life expectancy we obtain estimates …