If you’re 65 years old today and living in a developed country, you can expect to live for about another 19 years (age 83 if you’re a man and 86 if you’re a woman).
This is up more than five years since 1960—and those are just the averages. Between 1990 and 2015, the number of centenarians worldwide increased more than fourfold to nearly half a million, according to United Nations estimates.
Our current medical systems are not set up for this rapidly advancing era. But instead of trying to improve a broken health-care system, why not radically change the way we think about health overall?
Instead of treating older adults’ medical complications, let’s stop them from getting sick in the first place. Read more >>
Curated from: https://qz.com/1490064/when-it-comes-to-longevity-we-should-look-to-the-east-not-the-west/
