In China, the “oldest-old” urban dwellers are experiencing less disability and, for some, longer life expectancy

Elderly Chinese woman

Collin F. Payne, PhD, a fellow in a recent cohort of our Bell Postdoctoral Fellows, is an author on a paper published in BMC Medicine that examines both life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy among those cohorts born 1919–1928 and 1909–1918 in China. The findings could be instrumental in helping shape policy and programs in this country, which is one of the most rapidly aging societies in the world.

Photo: Rod Waddington on Flickr