Malgré leur plus grande longévité, les femmes âgées sont significativement plus atteintes que les hommes de leur âge par des maladies invalidantes – fractures d'ostéoporose, arthrose, polyarthrite rhumatoïde, ictus, incontinence, cancer, etc.
In spite of women’s greater longevity, the incidence of debilitating diseases – fractures caused by osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, strokes, incontinence of urine, and cancer – is much higher in their case than among men of the same age.