“The percentage of U.S. residents in the 70-74 age group who said they suffered from severe disabilities soared to 30.1% in 2002, from 25.5% in 1992.”
That is a swift uptick in disabled people of that age group when compared to others. Within that same 10-year period “people 25 and older saw a drop in the prevalence of disability.”
Some of the ideas as to this difference stem from “factors such as poor nutrition, polio epidemics, AIDS, and early improvements in medical technology that cut death rates for deadly diseases without doing much to improve morbidity rates.”
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