How The Pandemic Changes Retirement
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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Why Die? Pandemic Pushes Progress
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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Will Health Extension Make Retirement Savings Unnecessary?
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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Changing Your Perspective on Aging
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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Will Human Lifespans Continue to Expand? – Reasons for Optimism
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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Longevity Mindset
Your mindset is an important aspect of how you will experience your life. Not only that, it may also have a big influence over your longevity! One of my favorite podcasts is called Exponential Wisdom – where Peter Diamandis (of Singularity University and X-Prize) and Dan Sullivan (of Strategic Coach) riff on different topics. As…
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There’s Gold In Them-Thar Nanotubes! – Medical Advances Now Tied to Technological Acceleration
An extraordinary wave of new interventions, treatments, medical tools and new and more precise medical knowledge is upon us. They will propel the progression of better and faster diagnosis, treatments cures and prevention,
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Should We Plan on Living Beyond Age 100? “Longevity Risk” and Retirement Revisited
A key theme I write about in RetirementSingularity.com is the idea that we are, I believe, not too far away from being able to extend human healthy life spans well beyond age 120. In my mind, an important unknown is when this will become an accessible and practical reality. My best guess is that the science that will enable this will start showing up in about 15 – 20 years. Since this is not that far away, and likely within your life expectancy, don’t you think it should be something you pay attention to?
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The Coming Age of Unprecedented Healthy Life Extension and Why You Should Be Cheering It On!
Maybe not! Consider that retirement planning is about the future – your future. And given the acceleration of change in our world, consider that your future will be dramatically different than your past.
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Financing A Long-Lived Future – Zoomer Article
cast your mind into the future when advances in science, nutrition and health care begin to take hold and extend our lifespans. It will be a time when age 80 won’t mean falling prey to the typical decline of mind and body that we normally associate with old age. Instead, he suggests we’ll be healthy, energetic and willing and able to keep learning – and keep working.
