Oct 22 2024
AI-enabled robots are evolving to become essential companions and assistants in daily life, particularly addressing loneliness among the elderly. These robots will perform various tasks while providing emotional support. Despite ethical challenges, their benefits are expected to significantly enhance human quality of life.
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Aug 23 2024
Why Improving Healthy Longevity Is Important Imagine a world where people enjoy longer, healthier lives. With the progress in anti-aging research, this is increasingly becoming a reality. Moreover, it could represent a windfall of over $37 trillion for the United States alone! A study by Scott et al. (2021) titled “The economic value of targeting …
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Jul 10 2024
Image thx to Dall-E 3 Personal AI assistants are already showing up via smart chatbots that have been fed with appropriate data uploads. The chat bot can respond in an intelligent fashion from the corpus of data that was uploaded. May seem cute at first, but this is just the beginning. We are quickly moving …
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Jun 22 2024
The future of pensions in the age of life extension is a complex and multifaceted issue that will require the collective effort of governments, financial institutions, and individuals to navigate successfully
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Jun 18 2024
As we stand on the brink of unprecedented technological advancements, the concept of retirement is undergoing a radical transformation. The convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and breakthroughs in medical science are setting the stage for a future where living healthier, longer lives is not just a dream but an impending reality. Here are some of …
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Oct 01 2021
The pandemic will very likely speed up the time when people’s healthy life span (or healthspan) is further extended. Impacts to retirement are huge.
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Apr 14 2020
Why Do We Pay More Attention to Viruses Vs. Aging? Pandemics lead to increased contemplation of death. A surprising result may be the acceleration of life extension and age reversal therapies! Recently, the number of world-wide casualties to Covid-19 went over 100,000. Somewhere over 80% of people who die from the virus are over the …
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Sep 27 2019
A continuing flow of promising research on aging points to a growing likelihood that healthy life spans will soon get a significant boost. It is also possible that initial progress in extending “health spans” by a few years will unfold further into “longevity escape velocity” – where remaining life span gets increased by more than 1 …
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May 26 2019
Changing Your Perspective on Aging A lifetime of holding one perspective will not be easy to change Even though life spans have been increasing – even doubling in the last couple of centuries, we still age, get old and die. That has been the program since humankind has been around. We look around and see …
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May 15 2019
Are you expecting to live in a robust and healthy state well beyond age 100? We are currently used to seeing age 80-ish as the limit with those living beyond that in mostly poor, frail shape. Also, if you look at recent stats from the US that show life expectancy has dropped for 3 years …
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