Monday, December 07, 2009
Calculations from the Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, linked to the Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Ageing (NCHA), show that many Dutch babies of today may reach their 100th anniversary. However, this will only occur when health care for elderly people in The Netherlands is radically improved.
During the fifties, The Netherlands was World No. 1 in terms of life expectancy. Nowadays we are ranked 30th. This is probably not due to smoking, as is often thought, but to the disintegration of societal groups and individualisation: informal care by the large network of family members has been replaced by institutionalised care.
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