A study of a million UK women, published in The Lancet, has shown that happiness itself has no direct effect on mortality, and that the widespread but mistaken belief that unhappiness and stress directly cause ill health came from studies that had simply confused cause and effect. Life-threatening poor health...
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Life Expectancy Climbs Worldwide but People Spend More Years Living with Illness and Disability
Life Expectancy Climbs Worldwide but People Spend More Years Living with Illness and Disability Global life expectancy has risen by more than six years since 1990 as healthy life expectancy grows. People around the world are living longer, even in some of the poorest countries, but a complex mix of...
Infographic – The Importance of Talking About End-of-Life Care
The Importance of Talking about End-of-Life Care – from VITAS – An infographic by the team at The Importance of Talking about End-of-Life Care – from VITAS