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The gap between lifespan and health span is widening.
For almost a decade of their life, people will be sick, having a lower quality of life.
When it comes to longevity, we should aim to improve not only the length but also the quality of life. Increasing the number of years lived by an individual without improving their health would only escalate the gap between lifespan and health span (period with no diseases). Let's look at this paradox and its scientific, communal, clinical, and economic dimensions.
The Nature Partner Journal: Regenerative Medicine published a study that discusses the gap between lifespan and healthspan. Compared with the 1950s, life expectancy has increased by 30 years, and the world population tripled, but the health span improved at a much slower rate. The health span-lifespan gap is currently estimated to be around nine years - which means that for almost a decade of their life, people will be sick, having a lower quality of life and, furthermore, burdening their closest ones and the healthcare and economic systems.
When talking about health, not only diseases are at play, but frailty too, adds authors Armin Garmany, Satsuki Yamada, and Andre Terzic. WHO reacted to this situation by setting up targets in mortality reduction and proclaiming this decade as a "decade of healthy aging."
The solution lies in the intersection of communal, clinical, and scientific approaches. The collective dimension encloses public health initiatives and influencing social disease determinants, such as socioeconomic status or inadequate access to healthcare. The clinical view targets multimorbidity since over 50% of elders over 70 years of age manifest multiple chronic diseases. The other goal is to augment decision support by electronic health record systems. From the scientific point of view, the healthspan gap can be improved by regenerative therapies and by addressing cellular senescence and stem cells exhausting, leading to decreased frailty. We should also consider Anti-aging science from the cost-effectiveness point of view -- and factor all of those challenges into healthspan-lifespan considerations.
Source: nature.com
Photo: Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
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When it comes to longevity, we should aim to improve not only the length but also the quality of life. Increasing the number of years lived by an individual without improving their health would only escalate the gap between lifespan and health span (period with no diseases). Let's look at this paradox and its scientific, communal, clinical, and economic dimensions.
The Nature Partner Journal: Regenerative Medicine published a study that discusses the gap between lifespan and healthspan. Compared with the 1950s, life expectancy has increased by 30 years, and the world population tripled, but the health span improved at a much slower rate. The health span-lifespan gap is currently estimated to be around nine years - which means that for almost a decade of their life, people will be sick, having a lower quality of life and, furthermore, burdening their closest ones and the healthcare and economic systems.
When talking about health, not only diseases are at play, but frailty too, adds authors Armin Garmany, Satsuki Yamada, and Andre Terzic. WHO reacted to this situation by setting up targets in mortality reduction and proclaiming this decade as a "decade of healthy aging."
The solution lies in the intersection of communal, clinical, and scientific approaches. The collective dimension encloses public health initiatives and influencing social disease determinants, such as socioeconomic status or inadequate access to healthcare. The clinical view targets multimorbidity since over 50% of elders over 70 years of age manifest multiple chronic diseases. The other goal is to augment decision support by electronic health record systems. From the scientific point of view, the healthspan gap can be improved by regenerative therapies and by addressing cellular senescence and stem cells exhausting, leading to decreased frailty. We should also consider Anti-aging science from the cost-effectiveness point of view -- and factor all of those challenges into healthspan-lifespan considerations.
Source: nature.com
Photo: Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
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Ana has over 20 years of consultancy experience in longevity, regenerative and precision medicine. She has a multifaceted understanding of genomics, molecular biology, clinical biochemistry, nutrition, aging markers, hormones and physical training. This background allows her to bridge the gap between longevity basic sciences and evidence-based real interventions, putting them into the clinic, to enhance the healthy aging of people. She is co-founder of Origen.life, and Longevityzone. Board member at Breath of Health, BioOx and American Board of Clinical Nutrition. She is Director of International Medical Education of the American College of Integrative Medicine, Professor in IL3 Master of Longevity at Barcelona University and Professor of Nutrigenomics in Nutrition Grade in UNIR University.
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