Showing posts with label Age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Age. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Mind over matter...

December 17, 2014 Age , Health 0 Comments
Real Vs. Perceived Age: A Matter Of Life And Death

Lindsey Tanner, Dec. 15, 2014, Sun Herald

The researchers analyzed data from a study in England on aging that included information on deaths during a follow-up period that ended in February 2013; deaths totaled 1,030. About 14 percent of the young-feeling adults died during the follow-up, versus 19 percent of those who felt their actual age and 25 percent of those who felt older.

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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Self-imposed death panel

September 25, 2014 Age , Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel 0 Comments
Victor Davis Hanson: OCare Architect Says 75 Is Ideal Age To Die 

By Victor Davis Hanson, Sept. 25, 2014, Townhall.com

Normally, no one would care that in a recent Atlantic essay -- "Why I hope to die at 75"-- 57-year-old Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel argued that living to be 75 years old was long enough for anyone. After 75, Emanuel suggests, "We are no longer remembered as vibrant and engaged but as feeble, ineffectual, even pathetic.

But Emanuel is no garden-variety crackpot. Nor is he a wannabe science-fiction writer dreaming of a centrally planned planet of robust youthful humanoids. Unfortunately, he was one of the chief architects of the troubled Affordable Care Act and a key medical advisor to the Obama administration.

The ACA's conservative critics have long knocked Obamacare as a first step toward medical rationing. Read Emanuel's diatribe against living too long, and suddenly Sarah Palin's attack on Obamacare's "death panels" does not seem so far-fetched.

Emanuel's main point is that those who live beyond 75 inordinately gobble up collective health resources -- like flu shots. Emanuel asserts that at age 75 and beyond, he will decline nearly all medical tests and treatments. ("What about simple stuff? Flu shots are out.") He claims he won't take antibiotics either.

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