Compression of Morbidity 1980–2011: A Focused Review of Paradigms and Progress

The Compression of Morbidity hypothesis—positing that the age of onset of chronic illness may be postponed more than the age at death and squeezing most of the morbidity in life into a shorter period with less lifetime disability—was introduced by our group in 1980. This paper is focused upon the ev...

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Main Authors: James F. Fries, Bonnie Bruce, Eliza Chakravarty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Aging Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/261702
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