{"id":24813,"date":"2019-05-10T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24813"},"modified":"2019-05-11T10:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T15:24:31","slug":"word-of-the-day-469","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/05\/10\/word-of-the-day-469\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Healthspan<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, that\u2019s right:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23230943-600-115-might-be-as-old-as-we-can-get-thanks-to-our-bodies-limits\/\">longevity research is no longer about living longer<\/a>. \u201cThe aim is to keep people healthier before they die,\u201d says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.age.mpg.de\/science\/research-labs\/partridge\/\">Linda Partridge<\/a>, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Germany. \u201cIt is sometimes called compressing morbidity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To put it another way, it is about extending \u201chealthspan\u201d, the number of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23331072-200-a-cure-for-ageing-is-near-but-you-probably-cant-afford-it\/\">disease-free years towards the end of life<\/a>. That means keeping life expectancy the same, which for children born in 2019 in developed countries is 85, but being healthy for 84 years rather than decrepit for the final 10.\u00a0<em>[<\/em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24232270-100-anti-ageing-drugs-are-coming-that-could-keep-you-healthier-for-longer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer<\/a>,&#8221; <em>Graham Lawton, <strong>NewScientist<\/strong> (27 April 2019, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article felt like a tease. However, the concept is extremely important for developed nations, as otherwise the demographics would become quite burdensome for the young.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthspan: Yes, that\u2019s right:\u00a0longevity research is no longer about living longer. \u201cThe aim is to keep people healthier before they die,\u201d says\u00a0Linda Partridge, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Germany. \u201cIt is sometimes called compressing morbidity.\u201d To put it another way, it is about \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/05\/10\/word-of-the-day-469\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24824,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24813\/revisions\/24824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}