Many gerontologists believe that staving off the ageing process is within all of our powers.
Healthy life expectancy in the UK has reached a “watershed moment” according to researchers.
A new report, published by the Health Foundation, found that the UK is one of only five of 21 high-income countries that saw healthy life expectancy fall between 2011 and 2021, and had the second steepest decline.
The researchers said this was partly a result of widening inequalities, which rose considerably in the UK during and after the 1980s.
The gap between the most and least deprived deciles in England is now 19.4 years for males and 20.3 years for females. As a result, the UK has fallen from 14th to 20th out of the high-income countries – only the United States now has a lower healthy life expectancy.
These findings reinforce growing evidence about declining health in the UK.
And yet science, and some so-called super-agers, are showing us that ageing is not as inevitable as we think.
Take, for example, Sir David Attenborough, who today celebrates his 100th birthday.
Many gerontologists – scientists who study ageing – believe that Sir David is far from being an outlier: it is within all of us to stay just as fit and supple right up to the age of 100.Get The Full, Articles. .
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