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Our calculator will guess how many healthy years of life you have left

  • Written by Jeyaraj Vadiveloo, Director of the Janet and Mark L. Goldenson Center for Actuarial Research, University of Connecticut
imageWe're living longer than ever. But how many of those years will we be healthy?Have a nice day photo/Shutterstock.com

As the old saying goes, the only things certain in life are death and taxes. While death is inevitable, the quality of life you experience until death is often within an individual’s control.

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