Women tend Aged Long But Vulnerable exposed Disabilities

A study called the lady on average live longer than men. Unfortunately, the risk of women have disabilities are also greater.

The study was conducted to women aged over 65 years in the United States. Researchers took the data for three years, namely 1982, 2004 and 2011. It found that on average women live longer 1 to 5 years than men.

The research found women on average live to the age of 82.5 to 85.5 years. While in men, the average age is 79-84 years.

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Unfortunately, women who are aged over 65 years of age spend 30 percent of the rest of his life in a

state of disability. This percentage is smaller in men who are on 22 percent, even down to 19 percent at the end of the study.

"When he was older, women typically have fewer resources than men so that they could not accommodate the required needs," said researcher Vicki Freedman of the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, told Reuters.

Freedman said disability in the elderly can be caused by many factors. One of them is the treatment of health problems, lifestyle as easy and kind of work. Experiencing disability makes elderly unproductive, difficult even doing homework like wearing clothes, bathing to cooking.

Even so, research Freedman noted a reduction in the risk of disability from 1982 to 2011. In 1982, 13.2 percent of women and 10.7 percent of men experiencing disabilities. While in 2011, the risk of disability in women amounts to 10 percent and men at 7 percent.

Dr James Kirkland, director of the Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging, Mayo Clinic, said factors friendliness and sincerity women undergo one of the factors that make them live longer. They are also less likely to die from heart disease and others.

"Biologically, women are more difficult to die of a heart attack. They did not die, but eventually recovered and lived in disability," he said.

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