From Yale School of Medicine: This story; the rates of chronic disability in older Americans has been substantially overestimated by about forty percent, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the December 12 Archives of Internal Medicine.
“Our projections yielded about two million fewer chronically disabled older Americans in 1999, relative to the published estimate of seven million,” said Thomas M. Gill, M.D., who co-authored the study with Evelyne A. Gahbauer, M.D.
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