The United Well being Basis launched its annual America’s Well being Rankings Senior Report, which opinions 10 years of knowledge on the well being and well-being of People 65 and older, final week.
The report features a rating of the healthiest states and unhealthiest states for older adults based mostly on 35 measures throughout 5 classes of well being. These embody well being outcomes and 4 different classes which can be determinants of well being: social and financial elements, bodily atmosphere, behaviors and medical care.
Information within the report got here from quite a lot of sources, together with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention’s Behavioral Threat Issue Surveillance System and the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Companies’ Mapping Medicare Disparities Device.
The states that rank lowest within the report examine extremely unfavorably with different states throughout a lot of the 5 classes. Within the behaviors class, for instance, folks 65 and older within the unhealthiest states smoke extra, don’t eat sufficient vegatables and fruits, and don’t get sufficient train and sleep.
And by way of well being outcomes, seniors in these states have larger charges of weight problems and extreme consuming, falls, frequent bodily and psychological misery, and suicide. These within the 65-to-74 age group even have larger charges of a number of continual circumstances and die early.
See the gallery for the 12 unhealthiest states for older People, and the way one each ranked throughout the 5 well being classes.
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