Retiree Health Costs and long life

[Guest guest]

In today's WSJ, there's an article on the zooming cost of health care and

whether today's and future retirees will be able to afford these costs.

From the article: " ...... start by estimating your life span. There are

life expectancy calculators that take into account factors such as your

nutrition, family history, health, lifestyle habits and environmental

circumstances. One such calculator , the Living to 100 Healthspan

Calculator (www.livingto100.com/) was developed by Perle, an expert

on aging at Boston U School of Medicine and director to the New England

Centarian Study. "

[Guest guest]

Couldn't do the test on that page, but here's another one linked to them

that works:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/health/gigaquiz?infile=health_calculator & path=

calculator_living

This calculator doesnt factor in CR and told me that since I had a BMI lower

than 20 that I was " too skinny " . My test results came to a life expectency

of 97+ years.

on 5/14/2004 8:47 PM, Francesca Skelton at fskelton@... wrote:

> In today's WSJ, there's an article on the zooming cost of health care and

> whether today's and future retirees will be able to afford these costs.

>

> From the article: " ...... start by estimating your life span. There are

> life expectancy calculators that take into account factors such as your

> nutrition, family history, health, lifestyle habits and environmental

> circumstances. One such calculator , the Living to 100 Healthspan

> Calculator (www.livingto100.com/) was developed by Perle, an expert

> on aging at Boston U School of Medicine and director to the New England

> Centarian Study. "

[Guest guest]

I was suprised at the selectivity within some of the questions. I

wonder whether retirement annuities would be a good (better) investment

choice for those expected to live longer. Here's a short link for that

site in case it helps.

http://snipurl.com/6fdu

Francesca Skelton wrote:

>Couldn't do the test on that page, but here's another one linked to them that

works:

>

>http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/health/gigaquiz?infile=health_calculator & path=

>calculator_living

>

>This calculator doesnt factor in CR and told me that since I had a BMI lower

than 20 that I was " too skinny " . My test results came to a life expectency of

97+ years.

>

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