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Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity
(Consensus Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity
(Consensus Study Report, National Academy of Medicine, 2022)
This report presents a global, evidence-based strategy for transforming aging into an opportunity by promoting healthy longevity—a state where people live long lives in good health, with full physical, cognitive, and social functioning, and where societies harness the potential of older adults.
🧠 1. Why This Roadmap Matters
Across the world, populations are aging faster than ever due to:
Longer life expectancy, and
Declining birth rates
The number of people aged 65+ has been growing more rapidly than any other age group, and this trend will continue.
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However, a critical problem exists:
📉 People are living longer, but not healthier.
Between 2000 and 2019, global lifespan increased, especially in low- and middle-income countries,
but years of good health stagnated, meaning more years are spent in poor health.
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🌍 2. Purpose of the Roadmap
To address this challenge, the National Academy of Medicine convened a global, multidisciplinary commission to create a roadmap for achieving healthy longevity worldwide.
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The aim is to help countries develop data-driven, all-of-society strategies that promote health, equity, productivity, and human flourishing across the lifespan.
❤️ 3. What Healthy Longevity Means
According to the commission, healthy longevity is:
Living long with health, function, meaning, purpose, dignity, and social well-being, where years in good health approach the biological lifespan.
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This reflects the WHO definition of health as a state of complete:
physical
mental
social well-being
—not merely the absence of disease.
🎯 4. Vision for the Future
The report emphasizes that aging societies can thrive, not decline, if healthy longevity is embraced as a societal goal.
With the right policies, older adults can:
Contribute meaningfully to families and communities
Participate in the workforce or volunteer roles
Live with dignity, purpose, and independence
Support strong economies and intergenerational cohesion
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⭐ The future can be optimistic—if we act now.
⚠️ 5. The Cost of Inaction
If societies fail to respond, consequences include:
More years lived in poor health
Higher suffering and dependency
Increased financial burden on families
Lost productivity and fewer opportunities for younger and older people
Lower GDP
Larger fiscal pressures on governments
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In short:
Ignoring healthy longevity is expensive—socially and economically.
🧩 6. Principles for Achieving Healthy Longevity
The commission identifies five core principles:
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1. People of all ages should reach their full health potential
With dignity, meaning, purpose, and functioning.
2. Societies must enable optimal health at every age
Creating conditions where individuals can flourish physically, mentally, and socially.
3. Reduce disparities and advance equity
So that people of all countries and social groups benefit.
4. Recognize older adults as valuable human, social, and financial capital
Their contributions strengthen families, communities, and economies.
5. Use data and meaningful metrics
To measure progress, guide policy, and ensure accountability.
🏛️ 7. How Countries Should Act
Every nation must create its own pathway based on its unique demographics, infrastructure, and culture.
However, the roadmap emphasizes:
✔ Government-led calls to action
✔ Evidence-based planning
✔ Multisector collaboration (healthcare, urban design, technology, finance, education)
✔ Building supportive social and community infrastructure
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These are essential for transforming aging from a crisis into an opportunity.
🌟 Perfect One-Sentence Summary
The Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity outlines how aging societies can ensure that people live longer, healthier, more meaningful lives—and emphasizes that now is the time for coordinated global action to achieve this future.
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