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- Title
Disentangling the roles of disability and morbidity in survival to exceptional old age.
- Authors
Terry, Dellara F; Sebastiani, Paola; Andersen, Stacy L; Perls, Thomas T
- Abstract
Although it is commonly held that survival to age 100 years entails markedly delaying or escaping age-related morbidities, nearly one-third of centenarians have age-related morbidities for 15 or more years. Yet, we have previously observed that many centenarians compress disability toward the end of their lives. Therefore, we hypothesize that for some centenarians, compression of disability rather than morbidity is a key feature for survival to old age.
- Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2008, Vol 168, Issue 3, p277
- ISSN
0003-9926
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archinternmed.2007.75