The Compression of Morbidity: Miscellaneous Comments About a Theme

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The Compression of Morbidity hypothesis maintains that the age of onset of significant disability may be moved upward more rapidly than life expectancy, thus compressing morbidity into a shorter period at the end of life, by using a strategy primarily directed at postponement of chronic illness and improvement in vitality through increased physical, psychological and social exercise, particularly in the later years. Objections to the thesis are examined in this paper, a series of qualitative and quantitativeconfusions are discussed, and predictions for the future offered.

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