Vitamin D supplementation can cost 50 dollars a day (live longer)

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 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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