![]() ![]() ![]() MADDY DYCHTWALD: We have average life expectancy about 79. And so who wants to spend the last 7, 8, 10, 15 years of their life in pain or not able to be independent or with loss of cognitive functions? There's many countries around the world that have a much higher health span and life expectancy lifespan than we do. KEN DYCHTWALD: There's life span and then there's health span. ![]() But I think that if you instill the message early enough that young people will catch on and start taking action.ĭANIEL KRAFT: Can you maybe explain the difference about just life span versus health span? MADDY DYCHTWALD: People are going to have to be able to reconcile the fact that they have to plan for their present and for their future self at the same time. Let's smarten ourselves up about how to deal with aging bodies. And so you're going to see everything from the way we design our automobiles to the size of the typeface and our printing materials to the skills needed to be a health care practitioner to the role models we're going to see in movies and TV shows are going to increasingly become older men and women. And so on top of this longevity revolution, most of the growth in American demography is taking place in maturity. And they average just under four kids each.Īnd so that baby boom is now becoming and age wave. In 92% of all women who could have kids did. And the Depression and the war was such a dark period, there was so much exuberance that followed it. KEN DYCHTWALD: We had birth rates declining for about 150 years in America. Can you help summarize kind of what's here and what's coming, because I don't think many of the folks listening, health care practitioners included, really realize what's ahead of us in the next couple of decades? Let's begin by defining who we're talking about. New technologies are making it possible for more seniors to continue living independent lives by receiving care at home.īut as they say, in many ways, the future is already here. DANIEL KRAFT: Welcome to Healthy Conversations, an open discussion with health care experts about what we're learning on the front lines of clinical transformation. ![]()
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