Introduction Our proposal Description of study Results Conclusions and further work References An investigation of the terminal decline hypothesis: results from a population-based UK study of ageing Graciela Muniz (1) , A. van den Hout (1) , F. Matthews (1) , A. Piccinin (2) , S. Hofer (2) (1) Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge (2) University of Victoria, Canada August 2009 GM,AH,FM,AP,SH Terminal Decline