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Immigrants linked to lower elderly mortality: study

The findings come as the United States faces a growing imbalance between the number of older adults and the available caregiving workforce.

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A new study finds that increases in immigration are associated with lower mortality among older adults in U.S. metropolitan areas, largely due to growth in the healthcare workforce.

The research, conducted by scholars from Harvard Medical School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Rochester, reports that adding 1,000 immigrants to a metropolitan statistical area corresponds to about 10 fewer elderly deaths than expected.

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