Tag: Social Issues

A new publication in Nature Medicine has provided evidence from multiple countries supporting the idea that older people who have hobbies are healthier and less likely to have depression. Loneliness, social isolation, and hobbies This paper begins with an explanation of population aging and its downstream consequences. The authors point out United Nations data showing...

Scientists have shown that social frailty – a composite index based on income level, household status, and social activity – significantly affects all-cause mortality in the elderly, with poverty being the predominant factor [1]. There is more than one way to be frail Physical frailty is a known companion of aging and a major risk...

By analyzing historical data, scientists have shown that politicians, an example of an elite group, have enjoyed longer than average life expectancy since about 1950 [1]. The elite lives longer Historical trends in health and mortality can teach us a lot about the present. It is common knowledge that life expectancy at birth has increased...

Sometimes those working in the field of rejuvenation biotechnology face the accusation that what they are doing is just a fear of death, like not being scared of age-related diseases is somehow brave. War used to be fashionable but now it isn't These days, war is not really portrayed in a very good light. When...

When you discuss any major issue, sooner or later someone will say it: there are more urgent issues than whatever it is you’re advocating for. Sometimes it may be true; other times, and probably most of the time, it’s a logical fallacy known as appeal to worse problems (or “not as bad as”, or even...

One concern that people have about increasing healthy human longevity is that society would become stagnant and innovation would cease as a result of people living too long. However, stagnation probably won't happen as a result of increased longevity. Increasing human longevity vs the status quo Steve Jobs once said that death is life’s single...