Computation is based on:
- Vitamin D extends lives
- Cost of additional years in senior home/assisted living = $18,000 (conservative) = $50/day
Govt/insurance pays for results of poor health (if not take vitamin D)
- Otherwise the end-of-life medical charges would be exceed the cost of senior home
- Strange that healthy seniors have to pay for senior homes, but unhealthy seniors do not have to pay for their medical costs.
With vitamin D seniors:
- Can live longer,
- Living longer will reduce the size of inheritance if they are in senior home/assisted living
- Might live longer than their savings ==> leave senior home and no inheritance
See also VitaminDWiki
- People die sooner if they have low vitamin D – Nov 2014
- 1.9 X more likely to die if very low vitamin D – June 2014
- Hospital or ICU death about twice as likely if low vitamin D – March 2014
- Even small amounts of Vitamin D prevent mortality in adults – Cochrane Review Jan 2014
- Chance of dying increases by 25 percent in seniors if low vitamin D – Meta-analysis July 2013
- Chance of dying within 1 month of entering hospital is 45 percent higher if low vitamin D – July 2013
- Off topic: Special issue on Longevity in the Journal Nature - free text Dec 2012
- Death rate 2X higher at age 60 if low vitamin D - 180,000 in Israel May 2012
- Death rate reduced 8 percent for 8 nanogram more vitamin D – meta-analysis Feb 2012
- Women very low on vitamin D were 56 percent more likely to die in nursing home – Feb 2012
- Dr. Grant on vitamin D and mortality in VitaminDWiki
- Overview Seniors and Vitamin D
- Intestines do not process active vitamin D as well as you age – June 2012 - also less from skin and less from liver and kidneys
- Long term care – vitamin D most popular supplement – Jan 2012
- All items in cateogry Mortality and Vitamin D
320 items - Encourage your senior parents to take more vitamin D, you will get more inheritance assumes end-of-life costs are paid by family.
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