Abstract
THIS ARTICLE COMPARES CHANGES IN TOTAL LIFE EXPECTANCY with changes in disability-free life expectancy between 1970 and 1980 in the United States. Mortality has declined remarkably over this ten-year period, but the direction of recent changes in disability rates and thus disability-free life expectancy is less clear. Our analysis allows us to quantify, in measures related to life expectancy, answers to the question, Are Americans living longer healthy lives as well as longer lives? Answering this question is important in determining future needs for health care and policies directed at providing and paying for health care.
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