Pursuing the Longevity Dividend: Scientific Goals for an Aging World
Open accessAbstract
Abstract: The aging of humanity is about to experience a radical change as the demographic transformation to an older world is approaching its final stage. In recent decades, scientists have learned enough about the biological aging processes that many believe it will become possible to slow aging in humans. We contend that the social, economic, and health benefits that would result from such advances may be thought of as “longevity dividends,” and that they should be aggressively pursued as the new approach to health promotion and disease prevention in the 21st century. The time has arrived for governments and national and international healthcare organizations to make research into healthy aging a major research priority.
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In developed countries, health span, meaning years of healthy life without disease or diminished vigor, lags substantially behind increases in life span.
“Unfortunately, an equally long health span - years of healthy life, devoid of disease and diminished vigor - lags seriously behind the gains in life span [1].”
From Aging of the immune system: Focus on inflammation and vaccination (2016) · cites this paper as [1]
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
The citation lists haven’t been fetched yet
References 1 · Cited by 122
- Authors
- OLSHANSKY, S. J., PERRY, D., MILLER, R. A., & BUTLER, R. N.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Alliance for Aging Research (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- International Longevity Centre (US)
- Corresponding author
- OLSHANSKY, S. JAY
- Venue
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-10
- Volume
- 1114
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 11-13
- ISSN
- 0077-8923 (ISSN-L)
- 1749-6632
- OpenAlex
- W2164672030
- Cited by
- 122
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 10
- FWCI
- 1.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Aging and Gerontology Research
- Social Sciences › Demography › Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Keywords
- healthy aging, biological aging, population aging, health promotion, disease prevention, research priorities, healthcare policy
- MeSH terms
- Aging, Goals, Humans, Longevity
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
