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The USA has the world's largest gap between lifespan and healthy years

The USA has the world's largest gap between lifespan and healthy years

IFLScience - 17-Dec-2024

Women face a bigger healthspan gap than men due to specific health issues

Dementia death rates rise in the UK, worsening due to ageing population

Dementia death rates rise in the UK, worsening due to ageing population

Independent - 10-Dec-2024

CVD remains number 1 when heart disease and cerebrovascular diseases are combined

Blackpool tops UK list for lowest male life expectancy

Blackpool tops UK list for lowest male life expectancy

Sky News - 04-Dec-2024

Health disparities reveal stark north-south divide and challenges in coastal towns

The growing divide: life expectancy and inequality in the UK

The growing divide: life expectancy and inequality in the UK

City, University of London - 02-Dec-2024

UK’s gap in lifespan inequality between the poorest and richest has widened over the past generation

Daily nut consumption lowers disability risk and promotes a healthy lifespan

Daily nut consumption lowers disability risk and promotes a healthy lifespan

Live Forever Club - 28-Nov-2024

It reduces the risk of dementia, disability, and mortality

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Life Expectancy Resources

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British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA)

Scientific society which promotes and funds research into the biology of ageing

Human Mortality Database (HMD)

World´s leading scientific data resource on mortality in developed countries

The Longevity Imperative

Amazon

How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support Our Longer Lives, written by Andrew Scott

What is life expectancy?

Demographer Philip Cohen explains life expectancy with a simple example using real data

Behavior, Health, and Aging

Amazon

Book that offers a stimulating array of multiple aspects of the aging process and of factors that affect it written by Stephen B. Manuck

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Life Expectancy Blog Posts

Are Wimbledon champions really getting older?
12-Jul-2024

Are Wimbledon champions really getting older?

Has this century seen extraordinarily long-lived Wimbledon champions, or are winners over 30 years of age the new normal?

If you stopped ageing today, how long would you live?
23-May-2024

If you stopped ageing today, how long would you live?

Not as long as you might think. For radical life extension we need to reverse ageing.

Exponential Increase in Mortality and Diseases
28-Jun-2023

Exponential Increase in Mortality and Diseases

The data and science behind the exponential growth in mortality with age

Can love defeat death?
13-Feb-2023

Can love defeat death?

Health and life expectancy are affected by love, sex and marriage

A coffee a day keeps the grim reaper away
16-Feb-2016

A coffee a day keeps the grim reaper away

Relief for the many people who think their coffee habit is a guilty pleasure

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