Funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7-SSH-2012-1/No 320333 The MOPACT Coordination Team The University of Sheffield Department of Sociological Studies Northumberland Road Sheffield, S10 2TU, UK T: +44 (0)114 222 6458 F: +44 (0)114 276 8125 E:
[email protected] www.mopact.group.shef.ac.uk MOBILISING THE POTENTIAL OF ACTIVE AGEING IN EUROPE Trends in Healthy Life Expectancy and Health Indicators Among Older People in 27 EU Countries AHP Luijben1, H Galenkamp2 & DJH Deeg2,3 1Department of Public Health Forecasting, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands 2Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3Department of Psychiatry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1 ABSTRACT This report presents a review of the variety in levels of, and trends in, healthy life expectancy and important health indicators for older people in 27 EU countries. Trends were presented for three ages (50, 65 and 85 years) and for men and women separately. It reports the first task of Work Package 5 of the MOPACT project (Mobilising the Potential of Active Ageing in Europe). Healthy life expectancy was expressed in healthy life years, which was defined in this study as the number of years that a person is expected to continue to live without activity limitations. Overall, life expectancy at age 65 in the 27 countries increased between 2007 and 2010 by 0.6 years for men and 0.5 years for women. At the same time, LE without activity limitation (HLY) decreased by 0.2 years for men and women.