The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.
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The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.
We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.
We are living longer, and we need to live better.
Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
People use so much more health care when they live longer.
We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.
We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.
In the developed world, we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is the rise of chronic diseases.
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
When we live longer, we must work a little bit longer.
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