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Money buys everything? Rich people live more than a decade longer than most of us - Walla! health

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A study that looked at data from England and the US found that wealthy people also live healthier and disabilities in their later decades than poor people


Money buys everything? Rich people live about a decade longer than most of us

A study that looked at data from England and the US found that wealthy people also live healthier and disabilities in their later decades than poor people

Money buys everything? Rich people live about a decade longer than most of us

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Money may not buy everything, but it can make a big difference when it comes to your health. A new study published in the journal Gerontology found that wealthy people in the United States and England live nine years - almost a whole decade - than people who are struggling financially.

In the study, researchers looked at data from studies of about 25,000 boys and girls 50 and older in the US and England and followed them for 10 years. The researchers focused not only on people who lived longer, but on those who maintained a good quality of life in their later decades.

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"We often talk about how many years we can expect to live and what age people will die, but we thought it really important how many more years of life we ​​gain in good health," wrote the lead author of the study, Professor Paula Zeninoto, an epidemiologist at the University College London. Good health, she says, means people can function and do the things they love without disabilities.

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The study found that unsurprisingly, the socioeconomic factor was the biggest factor affecting whether people lived healthier and longer lives, and it touched on welfare and wealth. According to a press release from the University of London College, "At age 50, the richest men in England and the United States have lived about 31 additional years of health, compared to around 22-23 years for those in the lowest socioeconomic groups. Women from the richest groups from the US and England lived around 33 more healthy years compared to 24.6 and 24 years from the poorest groups in England and the US respectively. "

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The researchers also looked at education levels and found that people with higher education had more years of disability compared to those who were less educated. But the difference was smaller between these two groups, demonstrating that wealth (or lack thereof) had a greater impact on the number of functional and healthy years of old age.

"We were not surprised," Zaninoto wrote, "in fact, the reason for looking at wealth rather than income is that we know how important the socioeconomic situation is. This measure of wealth is based on housing, savings, investment - which takes a long time to accumulate." Zaninoto said the study highlights the huge wealth inequality in both countries - the US and the UK - and she hopes it will affect policymakers.

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