tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 147 - Greying Population Stays in the Pink

Hãy tham khảo IELTS Academic Reading Sample 147 - Greying Population Stays in the Pink được chia sẻ dưới đây để giúp các bạn biết thêm cấu trúc đề thi như thế nào, rèn luyện kỹ năng giải bài tập và có thêm tư liệu tham khảo chuẩn bị cho kì thi sắp tới đạt điểm tốt hơn. | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26 which are based on Reading Passage 147 below. GREYING POPULATION STAYS IN THE PINK Elderly people are growing healthier happier and more independent say American scientists. The results of a 14-year study to be announced later this month reveal that the diseases associated with old age are afflicting fewer and fewer people and when they do strike it is much later in life. In the last 14 years the National Long-term Health Care Survey has gathered data on the health and lifestyles of more than 20 000 men and women over 65. Researchers now analysing the results of data gathered in 1994 say arthritis high blood pressure and circulation problems -the major medical complaints in this age group - are troubling a smaller proportion every year. And the data confirms that the rate at which these diseases are declining continues to accelerate. Other diseases of old age - dementia stroke arteriosclerosis and emphysema - are also troubling fewer and fewer people. It really raises the question of what should be considered normal ageing says Kenneth Manton a demographer from Duke University in North Carolina. He says the problems doctors accepted as normal in a 65-year-old in 1982 are often not appearing until people are 70 or 75. Clearly certain diseases are beating a retreat in the face of medical advances. But there may be other contributing factors. Improvements in childhood nutrition in the first quarter of the twentieth century for example gave today s elderly people a better start in life than their predecessors. On the downside the data also reveals failures in public health that have caused surges in some illnesses. An increase in some cancers and bronchitis may reflect changing smoking habits and poorer air quality say the researchers. These may be subtle influences says Manton but our subjects have been exposed to worse and worse pollution for over 60 1 years. It s not surprising we see some effect. One interesting

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