Category: Research

This paper ultimately does two things. Firstly, it places an economic value on the gains to various combinations of improving health, increasing life expectancy and delaying aging. Secondly, it tries to capture the dynamics of how the relationship between these gains will evolve in the future. Read the full paper in Nature Aging here.

There is a lot of focus on an ageing society as a result of falling birth rates and longer lives. But this demographic transition is increasingly becoming a longevity transition with the majority of life expectancy gains in high income countries now coming in later years. Past improvements in health and life expectancy have been…

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