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Key findings:
- Increased life expectancy and advances in U.S. health care mean that Americans ow live longer, but with increased chronic illness at the end of life.
- These changes will likely increase the need for end-of-life care and strain he existing health care system.
- To respond to the changing demands, the U.S. health care system will need to hange the way it provides health care to older Americans in their last years of ife.
- needed reforms will require deliberate efforts from policymakers, health are providers, insurers, consumers, and family caregivers.