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Manchester, Joyce; Topoleski, Julie – Congressional Budget Office, 2008
In a continuation of long-term trends, life expectancy has been steadily increasing in the United States for the past several decades. Accompanying the recent increases, however, is a growing disparity in life expectancy between individuals with high and low income and between those with more and less education. The difference in life expectancy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Cohort Analysis, Social Indicators
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Motiwala, Sanober S.; Croxford, Ruth; Guerriere, Denise N.; Coyte, Peter C. – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2006
Place of death was determined for all 58,689 seniors (age greater than or equal to 66 years) in Ontario who died during fiscal year 2001/2002. The relationship of place of death to medical and socio-demographic characteristics was examined using a multinomial logit model. Half (49.2 %) of these individuals died in hospital, 30.5 per cent died in a…
Descriptors: Dementia, Foreign Countries, Resource Allocation, Probability