Norway Tops the List in Quality of Life for People Over 60

Recently, I wrote about how Canada, and numerous other nations, now rank higher than the United States does for overall quality of life.

Well, while perusing some of the old, never published entries in my storage here, I noticed this one, which I never did get around to publishing.

Well, there are other studies that focus on specific elements of the quality of life, and not surprisingly, many of these same countries that rank higher than the United States also rank very high on these lists, as well.

Case in point, Norway was ranked as the nation where people over the age of 60 enjoyed the best overall quality of life. Not too surprisingly, Afghanistan ranked at the bottom on that list at the time, although perhaps these days, that distinction might more likely fall to either Syria or Yemen.

This study had certain criteria:

The annual rankings based on income security, health care access, social benefits and community involvement reflected the generally greater affluence of Northern Hemisphere countries over those below the equator, with nine of the 10 best places for the elderly found in Northern Europe, North America and Japan. The geographic outlier was New Zealand, which ranked No. 10.

The study by HelpAge International, a London-based global coalition of organizations committed to improving living standards for the world's rapidly expanding over-60 population, examined the circumstances in which older people live in 96 countries-up from 91 included in last year's survey.

Norway ranked at the very top of this list. Other European nations rank very high on this list, as does New Zealand, Japan, and Canada.

Norway ranks No. 1, Afghanistan last, in quality of life for over-60s by Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2014:


http://phys.org/news/2014-10-norway-afghanistan-quality-life-over-60s.html#jCp