Life expectancy increasing

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

Per the census bureau - life expectancy for someone who was 65 in 2012 has been raised to 84 for men and 85 for women. A few years increase over the past. Of course those numbers are just averages. Per these numbers my DH will live 12 more years and I will live another 18.

However, I once had a patient who claimed to be a seer and she kept telling me I was going to die on my 80th birthday. At the time I was about 30 so that was fine with me - 80 seemed very far away.

SurferWife · ‎12-12-2010

The time, place & manner of my death is solely up to the sovereignty of God. When He is ready to call me home, I'll be gone, regardless of my age. I just hope if it's sooner rather than later, my husband remembers to cancel my QVC auto-deliveries. 😜

Time is just a drop in the bucket compared to eternity. It isn’t how long you live that matters; it is how well you are prepared to die. ~~Colonel Robert B. Thieme, Jr.

tansy · ‎01-02-2011

The longevity gap between men and women is narrowing.

HiLo · ‎03-10-2010

It may not be such a wonderful thing after all if Social Security goes broke or if there aren't enough young people to pay for it.

drizzellla · ‎03-14-2010

I just happened to read last night

The Society of Actuaries (SOA) released its latest annual mortality improvement scale for pension plans earlier this month. The scale is crafted using Social Security Administration data from 2012 to 2014 on mortality of Americans of all ages, and is used by pension plans to "help accurately measure pension obligations,"said Dale Hall, SOA's managing director of research.

Their study found that life expectancy had decreased by 6 months. And the US life expectancy was trending downward. And the US was dying younger.

I hope your study is right.

chiclet · ‎03-19-2010

Living longer on about a bucket full of meds. My husband takes so many. He barely knows what each one is for.

qualitygal · ‎10-04-2010

Exactly!!

icaughtu · ‎03-10-2010

Drizzella,

I read that same article as you. It did say life expectency has decreased by six months.

icaughtu · ‎03-10-2010

@chiclet wrote:
Living longer on about a bucket full of meds. My husband takes so many. He barely knows what each one is for.

My husband is the same way; tons of pills every day and night. Yet he still lives an unhealthy lifestyle.

I guess he thinks the pills will take care of everything. Watching him do that has given me a real aversion to pills. I try to avoid them and live healthy.

febe1 · ‎01-22-2012

My grandfather lived to 98 years old. Don't ask me what he died from. He smoked a pipe all his life; he ate well, naturally and healthy; he always looked a healthy weight, perhaps ten pounds over; he daily had a routine and a wonderful garden and grape arbor; he drank a glass of red wine daily. His oldest daughter lived to 94, and my mother his third born lived to 88. All died in their homes and from natural causes.