Tag: health
The brief’s key findings are: The increase in the average retirement age has been driven almost solely by those with more education. Those with less education have: seen less improvement in health; faced more physically demanding jobs and less flexible work schedules; experienced slower increases in lifespans, meaning less to gain from delaying Social Security; and seen…
Abstract We use two historical data sources – the Health and Retirement Study and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Study – to consider the patterns in older Americans’ severe disability and their use of long-term services and supports (LTSS) by age and socioeconomic status. We then use a dynamic microsimulation model to project how the effects…
