If you live in a rich country and you're fairly well-off, is there anything to stop you living to 100? Not anymore, according to new research which says that most babies born in the past few years in the UK will live to be 100 if current trends continue.
Writes Sarah Boseley today:
And people could be living not only longer, but better, according to doctors writing in the Lancet medical journal, who say that most evidence shows the under-85s are tending to remain more capable and mobile than before. They have more chronic illnesses, such as cancers and heart conditions, but people survive them because they are diagnosed earlier and get better treatment.
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