What age brings, and what merely keeps it company.
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From these 31 words, as many per round as you like — up to all of them: first what is due today, then new ones. First you choose, then you fill the gap, then you write it yourself. Mistakes come back again shortly.
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The nineteenth entry is o efeito de sobrevivência, and the English term for it is not built on the word a reader reaches for first. « Survival » names the fact of coming through, and it is everywhere: a survival rate, a survival kit, the survival of a species. The distortion this entry names is « survivorship bias », and « survivorship » is a different noun with a different job. It names the standing of the one who is still there rather than the event of lasting, and outside statistics an English reader meets it first in the law of property, where « the right of survivorship » is the rule by which a jointly owned house passes straight to the surviving owner and never goes near the will. Carry that sense across and the statistical term explains itself: a sample made only of what is still standing, with everything that dropped out of it silently absent. Two notes for writing it. « Survival bias » is heard and understood, but « survivorship bias » is the settled form. And biology uses the same stem again in « the survivorship curve », which plots how many of a cohort are left alive at each age.
os anos de vida saudávelhealthy life yearsNoun (m)C2
Os anos de vida saudável crescem mais devagar do que a esperança de vida.Healthy life years are rising more slowly than life expectancy.
o défice cognitivo ligeiromild cognitive impairmentNoun (m)C2
O défice cognitivo ligeiro nem sempre avança para demência.Mild cognitive impairment does not always go on to dementia.
o envelhecimento em casaageing in placeNoun (m)C2
O envelhecimento em casa depende de uma casa sem degraus.Ageing in place depends on a home without steps.
o cuidado prestado pela famíliacare given by the familyNoun (m)C2
O cuidado prestado pela família não aparece em estatística nenhuma.Care given by the family appears in no statistics at all.
o isolamento socialsocial isolationNoun (m)C2
O isolamento social pesa na saúde tanto como o tabaco.Social isolation weighs on health as heavily as tobacco.
o índice de dependência dos idososthe old-age dependency ratioNoun (m)C2
O índice de dependência dos idosos sobe em todo o continente.The old-age dependency ratio is rising across the whole continent.
os cuidados em fim de vidaend-of-life careNoun (m)C2
Os cuidados em fim de vida tratam da dor e do resto.End-of-life care deals with the pain and with everything else.
o estudo de coorte sobre o envelhecimentothe cohort study on ageingNoun (m)C2
O estudo de coorte sobre o envelhecimento repete as mesmas perguntas de dez em dez anos.The cohort study on ageing repeats the same questions every ten years.
o efeito de sobrevivênciathe survivorship effectNoun (m)C2
O efeito de sobrevivência torna os mais velhos aparentemente saudáveis.The survivorship effect makes the very oldest look healthy.
o envelhecimento bem-sucedidosuccessful ageingNoun (m)C2
O envelhecimento bem-sucedido não é o mesmo para toda a gente.Successful ageing is not the same thing for everybody.
o centenáriothe centenarianNoun (m)C2
O centenário ainda trata do seu quintal.The centenarian still looks after his own garden.
o pacto entre geraçõesthe contract between the generationsNoun (m)C2
O pacto entre gerações não está escrito em lado nenhum.The contract between the generations is written down nowhere.
o voluntariado na idade avançadavolunteering in later lifeNoun (m)C2
O voluntariado na idade avançada dá ritmo à semana.Volunteering in later life gives the week a rhythm.
