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Health: in France, life expectancy without disability is increasing
The French are living longer and longer in good health, according to the Ministry of Health. – (France 2)
The French are living longer and longer in good health, according to the Ministry of Health.
At age 65, a woman has a disability-free life expectancy of 11.8 years.. For a man is 10.2 years. This indicator is very useful for public authorities: it provides essential information which complements that of life expectancy. “It measures the length of life in good health and the interest of this indicator is to have injected the quality of life into the calculation of the quantity of life which is life expectancy”confides Jean-Marie Robine, demographer.
Total life expectancy “no longer increases significantly”
Over the past 15 years, this disability-free life expectancy has increased by 1 year and 9 months for women, and by 1 year and 6 months for men. With a slight decline in recent years. “Life expectancy without disability is entirely conditioned by what happens in terms of total life expectancy, which has not clearly increased over the past ten years”, specifies Jean-Marine Robine. France is fourth in the European Union in this indicator for men, third for women.
