Baby Boomers are living longer than previous generations but have worse health, study finds [Video]

Baby Boomers may be expected to live longer than their predecessors, but a recent study has found that they are more likely to suffer from worse health than previous generations.Video above: Diabetes may be linked to Alzheimer’s disease riskResearchers at the University of Oxford and University College London (UCL) found that people born since 1945 have worse health than previous generations at the same age, resulting in what they call a “generational health drift.””We found that Baby Boomers are more likely to have doctor-diagnosed diabetes, high cholesterol, heart problems, and a variety of other chronic health conditions compared to previous generations at the same age,” said Laura Gimeno, a doctoral candidate at UCL and lead author of the study, in an email to CNN Monday. She added that there was also little evidence for improvements in disability rates.The study, published in the Journals of Gerontology, looked at health data collected …