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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.
The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.
For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.
The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.
The way that we are going after ageing, I think, is a problem. The modern medical model is basically designed to attack one disease at a time. Independent of all other diseases and independent of the basic process of ageing itself.
Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
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