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Time to focus in on health extension rather than life extension

Longer healthspans will inevitably result in longer (and longer, and longer...) lifespans

21-Jun-2019

Key points from article :

Humanity has added 3 decades to people’s life spans in the past 150 years.

Sometimes living longer means having more and more diseases after every decade of life.

Health and longevity are frequently conflated.

Shifting healthcare system would require changing how the medical profession is structured.

Prevention should be put up a front and embed into the system.

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S. Jay Olshansky

Professor of Public Health at University of Illinois at Chicago.

Susan Golden

Director and Founder of the DCI – SCL Innovation Hub.

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Ageing Research