[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":310},["ShallowReactive",2],{"slug-what-if-we-all-lived-beyond-130-years":3},{"post":4,"relatedPosts":173,"relatedBooks":309},{"id":5,"date":6,"date_gmt":7,"guid":8,"modified":10,"modified_gmt":11,"slug":12,"status":13,"type":14,"link":15,"title":16,"content":18,"excerpt":21,"author":23,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":26,"template":27,"format":28,"meta":29,"categories":30,"tags":32,"project_category":43,"contact_email_category":44,"yst_prominent_words":45,"class_list":53,"better_featured_image":71,"acf":108,"yoast_meta":117,"_links":120},20686,"2018-06-09T13:00:54","2018-06-09T11:00:54",{"rendered":9},"http:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002F?p=20686","2022-05-25T17:47:00","2022-05-25T15:47:00","what-if-we-all-lived-beyond-130-years","publish","post","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fwhat-if-we-all-lived-beyond-130-years",{"rendered":17},"What If We All Lived Beyond 130 Years?",{"rendered":19,"protected":20},"\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"5px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp style=\"color: #555;font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\">THIS ARTICLE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2018. THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Life expectancy is continuously growing but how far could it be stretched? Could you imagine that the average person lived beyond 130 years of age? How would longevity transform societies and our ways of life?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Based on the book, \u003Cstrong>My Health: Upgraded.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003C!--more-->\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The quest for immortality\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Humanity has been yearning for the secret of immortality since the first temple for the ever-living Gods was built, which \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.smithsonianmag.com\u002Fhistory\u002Fgobekli-tepe-the-worlds-first-temple-83613665\u002F\">might have been 12,000 years ago in Gobekli Tepe\u003C\u002Fa>, according to the current state of archeology. The ancient legends and myths are full of tales about how men on Earth wanted to join the community of immortals. However, sometimes those who gained access to the privileged and reached the status of the Gods paid a very high price. According to the Homeric \u003Cem>Hymn to Aphrodite\u003C\u002Fem>, when \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.britannica.com\u002Ftopic\u002FTithonus-Greek-mythology\">Zeus was asked to grant prince Tithonus eternal life\u003C\u002Fa>, the god consented. Nonetheless, there was no request for eternal youth, so for thousands of years, Tithonus grew old and withered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The suffering of immortality often appears in the literary imagination, too. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.amazon.com\u002Fgp\u002Fproduct\u002F0393308456\u002Fref=x_gr_w_bb?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393308456&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2\">Simone de Beauvoir’s hauntingly beautiful novel, \u003Cem>All Men Are Mortal\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fa>, tells the tale of a 13th-century Italian man, Fosca, who recounts his life – and his immortality – to an actress in the 19th century. He says how at first he wanted power, then money, finally family and love. However, an immortal being must find that everything decays around him, eventually, so nothing has meaning and nothing has any risk anymore. \u003Cstrong>As human beings are finite in their lives, in their imagination and their thinking, infinity is unimaginable and inhuman\u003C\u002Fstrong>. As Ecclesiastes writes, “\u003Cem>there is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die…\u003C\u002Fem>”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-20687\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fjean-michel-basquiat-and-the-immortal-black-life.jpg\" alt=\"longevity\" class=\"wp-image-20687\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fjean-michel-basquiat-and-the-immortal-black-life.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fjean-michel-basquiat-and-the-immortal-black-life-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fjean-michel-basquiat-and-the-immortal-black-life-512x315.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fjean-michel-basquiat-and-the-immortal-black-life-406x250.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Immortal Black Life\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Longevity instead of immortality\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Still, \u003Cstrong>after thousands of years without any success, after the relentless and fruitless search for the Holy Grail by Christians, the appeal of immortality did not vanish, it only lessened\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Just look at all those who turn to the cryopreservation of the human body – to be able to wake up healthily from death after centuries. Michigan professor, Robert Ettinger proposed \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Ftechnology\u002F2008\u002Ffeb\u002F14\u002Fresearch.cryonics\">cryonics\u003C\u002Fa> in a book called The Prospect of Immortality, which argued that death could, in fact, be a reversible process. Ettinger, who died in 2011, went on to found the \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.cryonics.org\u002F\">Cryonics Institute\u003C\u002Fa> in Michigan where he, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theguardian.com\u002Fscience\u002F2016\u002Fnov\u002F18\u002Fthe-cryonics-dilemma-will-deep-frozen-bodies-be-fit-for-new-life\">his mother and his first and second wives all now reside in metal flasks kept at −196 °C\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>However, there are \u003Cstrong>many more who believe that instead of immortality, humanity has to look at longevity and the chances to keep people healthy and alive for as long as possible\u003C\u002Fstrong>. With the drastic increase in life expectancy in the last centuries, the idea of longevity seems to be as close as never before. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.newyorker.com\u002Fmagazine\u002F2017\u002F04\u002F03\u002Fsilicon-valleys-quest-to-live-forever\">Silicon Valley clearly has a quest for that now\u003C\u002Fa>. The \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fnam.edu\u002Finitiatives\u002Fgrand-challenge-healthy-longevity\u002F\">U.S. National Academy launched a Grand Challenge in Healthy Longevity\u003C\u002Fa>, which will award at least twenty-five million dollars for breakthroughs in the field. The \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.pacitaproject.eu\u002F\">Parliaments and Civil Society in Technology Assessment (PACITA)\u003C\u002Fa> is a project of the European Union bringing together stakeholders of healthcare in hopes to design policy, gather technological solutions, and promote awareness of assisting an aging society.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Do you think it’s impossible to live beyond a hundred years healthily? It might be for now, but what do you think a knight from the middle ages would have responded to the question whether he believes it is going to be possible to live until 70 years of age without any trouble in the 20th century?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-20689\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"804\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fdaryl-thetford-man-reaching.jpg\" alt=\"longevity\" class=\"wp-image-20689\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fdaryl-thetford-man-reaching.jpg 804w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fdaryl-thetford-man-reaching-768x831.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fdaryl-thetford-man-reaching-473x512.jpg 473w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fdaryl-thetford-man-reaching-231x250.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Daryl Thetford Man Reaching\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>How long shall we live?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Let us take the example of a 50-year-old male, Ted. He would be considered a Methuselah in ancient Greece or Rome, where the average life expectancy was 30 years. The same would go for Ted if he had fought in the Hundred Year’s War against the French or if he had sailed with Columbus for the New World on the Santa Maria. Before the 19\u003Csup>th\u003C\u002Fsup> century, people died much younger than today. Eternal love for your wife meant 10-20 years, maximum. However, \u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theatlantic.com\u002Fmagazine\u002Farchive\u002F2014\u002F10\u002Fwhat-happens-when-we-all-live-to-100\u002F379338\u002F\">since 1840, life expectancy at birth has risen about three months per year\u003C\u002Fa>. Thus, every year a newborn lives three months longer than those born the previous year\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Sweden, which keeps excellent demographic records, documents female life expectancy at 45 years of age in 1840 and 83 today.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Of course, there are huge differences between regions: if you are born in Morocco, you can expect a completely different life-span as in Canada. The two extremes are Sierra Leone and Japan: \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FList_of_countries_by_life_expectancy\">life expectancy is 50.1 years in the former and 83.7 in the latter\u003C\u002Fa>. However, \u003Cstrong>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.telegraph.co.uk\u002Fnews\u002Fscience\u002Fscience-news\u002F11562492\u002FMeet-the-doctor-who-is-convinced-he-will-live-to-150.html\">experts believe that\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003Cstrong> with recent breakthroughs in science and medicine coupled with lifestyle changes, this number could reach far beyond 100 years.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Although it is not obvious that people want to live longer. The \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.pewresearch.org\u002Ffact-tank\u002F2016\u002F09\u002F13\u002Famericans-are-wary-of-enhancements-that-could-enable-them-to-live-longer-and-stronger\u002F\">Pew Research Center surveyed thousands of Americans in 2013\u003C\u002Fa>. A third of them didn’t want to live past the age of 80, and 56 percent of adults said they would not want to live at least 120 years, which is considered the current upper limit of the human lifespan. Only a small minority of 8 percent wanted to live for more than a hundred years. And why don’t people want to live longer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-20693\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fphoto-montage.jpg\" alt=\"longevity\" class=\"wp-image-20693\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fphoto-montage.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fphoto-montage-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fphoto-montage-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fphoto-montage-334x250.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>Source: www.ethosreview.org\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Are societies crumbling as we live longer?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As the horrific tale of Tithonus shows, already the ancient Greeks knew that immortality has no value without health and well-being. What does it matter how old you are if you cannot use your body and brain to live a full life? Aging is generally associated with deteriorating health and decrepitude. That’s the primary reason why people wouldn’t want to live longer. Ideally, this should improve before life expectancy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>When you think about it\u003Cstrong>, the life of men and women lengthened so quickly in only a few decades that society hasn’t been able to adjust\u003C\u002Fstrong>. We can see that when \u003Cstrong>looking at overstrained pension schemes, economic distribution problems – but also deeper-rooted social structures and social values.\u003C\u002Fstrong> Even the idea of marriage and other social bonds might be in crisis because these constructions are slower to change than our life expectancy. Why wouldn’t they be? For example, people were told to live a married life and be faithful as long as they shall live for centuries. But how shall we do that if in the 19\u003Csup>th\u003C\u002Fsup> century that was 30 years at best and now it might even mean 60?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>How could we extend our lifespan beyond 100 years of age if the effects of an aging population already strain our societies\u003C\u002Fstrong>? If younger generations cannot sustain the social system to provide care for their elders as they are growing older and older, significant structural changes will be necessary. Transhumanist \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fzoltan_istvan\">Zoltan Istvan\u003C\u002Fa> agreed that if we live past 130 years, society will fundamentally change. We will have to contend with social welfare and retirement systems that cannot sustain themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fabr.32.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20698\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fabr.32.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fabr.32-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fabr.32-512x384.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002Fabr.32-333x250.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Could brain implants and exoskeletons come to the rescue?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Coping with increasing life expectancy is a long-term task, and \u003Cstrong>it starts with re-structuring societies so that they fundamentally reflect recent changes\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Young, as well as older workers, will have to deal with the fact that people will retire increasingly later. Healthcare systems should prepare for the fact that health problems will quadruple in the coming years due to larger numbers of the elderly. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.un.org\u002Fen\u002Fdevelopment\u002Fdesa\u002Fpopulation\u002Fpublications\u002Fpdf\u002Fageing\u002FWPA2015_Report.pdf\">two billion people will be over the age of 60 by 2050\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>However, \u003Cstrong>the ultimate aim should be to sustain the quality of life during those long ye\u003C\u002Fstrong>ars instead of spending it bedridden in hospitals or home cares. \u003Cstrong>Paying more attention to living a healthy life and the use of technologies could offer a helping hand\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Although we have no idea where exponential technological development might take us in the next 50 or 100 years, \u003Cstrong>trends show amazing possibilities for enhancing the human body and brain for keeping them fit\u003C\u002Fstrong>. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-worlds-most-famous-real-life-cyborgs\u002F\">Special brain implants could improve our memory\u003C\u002Fa>. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fdigital-health-makes-you-a-superhero\u002F\">Exoskeletons could boost our strength\u003C\u002Fa>, and augment a whole range of our human capabilities. Older people could carry out heavy lifting tasks and other cumbersome assignments by increasing their physical abilities with these complex robotic structures. Scientists are experimenting with various brain implants that \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.businessinsider.com\u002F10-brain-implant-superpowers-2014-5\">might help restore hearing for the deaf and restore sight for some blind people\u003C\u002Fa>. Imagine how these innovations could aid older people in the future to keep their capabilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-20694\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002F0._stickman__2017._performance.jpg\" alt=\"longevity\" class=\"wp-image-20694\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002F0._stickman__2017._performance.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002F0._stickman__2017._performance-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002F0._stickman__2017._performance-512x284.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2018\u002F06\u002F0._stickman__2017._performance-451x250.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003Cfigcaption>StickMan, 2017, video installation: 3 min 42 sec; original performance at Chrissie Parrot Arts, Perth, for The Daedalus Project at the Fringe World festival; sound by Petros Vouris; assisted by Tim Jewell, Steve Berrick, Alwyn Nixon-Llyod, Steven Aaron Hugues, Rodney Parsons and Paul Caporn. Photo by Steve Berrick. Courtesy the artist.\u003C\u002Ffigcaption>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the options of gene-editing or organ transplants should also be mentioned. What if scientists found a way to modify healthy adults’ genes to slow down aging? A \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.genengnews.com\u002Fgen-news-highlights\u002Factivated-gene-slows-the-aging-process\u002F81250322\u002F\">group of researchers already identified a potential gene for it\u003C\u002Fa>. And what if we could grow synthetic organs in laboratories to replace “worn-out” ones? \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.organovo.com\u002F\">Organovo\u003C\u002Fa> successfully bioprinted liver tissues already in 2014. The company suggests that within a decade, we will be able to print solid organs such as liver, heart, and kidney. The bioprinted liver tissue could \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002F3dprintingindustry.com\u002Fnews\u002Forganovo-3d-bioprinted-liver-tissue-make-fda-2019-101775\u002F\">make it to the FDA in 2019\u003C\u002Fa>. What if ectogenesis – growing babies outside the womb – would become reality alongside with the possibility for uploading individual minds to computers or the voluntary elimination of genders. There are already \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fnationalpost.com\u002Fhealth\u002Fartificial-wombs\">experiments for saving premature babies in artificial wombs\u003C\u002Fa>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Technologies for the aging society \u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>While some of the above options are currently rather concepts in science-fiction movies, such as \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.vulture.com\u002F2016\u002F10\u002Fblack-mirror-recap-season-3-episode-4.html\">Black Mirror’s San Junipero episode\u003C\u002Fa>, new \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fthe-greatest-technological-developments-for-the-elderly\u002F\">technologies are already available to help older adults live fuller and more independent lives\u003C\u002Fa> among their younger cohorts. \u003Cstrong>That’s exactly what digital solutions should do: not push them to society’s periphery but keep them connected to the center\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Some health technologies help preserve physical fitness, such as RespondWell, which is using a Kinect sensor to help understand a person’s physical limitations and connect them with a therapist who can then create an individualized physical fitness plan. Some others help recover lost abilities: \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.tvears.com\u002F\">TV Ears\u003C\u002Fa> lets people with hearing loss listen to the television clearly without turning up the volume. The Wright Stuff offers a range of products that make dressing up easier for anyone who cannot use one of their hands. The \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.liftware.com\u002F\">Liftware stabilizing handle\u003C\u002Fa>, a smart utensil supports motion and enables the hand to shake 70 percent less making eating enjoyable again. There are many more similar innovations on the market and in the future, there will be even more digital solutions with the goal to sustain the quality of life for longer lifespans. That will be the key motivator in our aging societies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F11\u002Fwearable-for-elderly.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14423\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F11\u002Fwearable-for-elderly.jpg 480w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F11\u002Fwearable-for-elderly-458x201.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The Medical Futurist believes in the saying that the first person to live beyond 150 has already been born. If it is true, we might be the new generation of supercentenarians. Naturally, that comes with responsibilities and consequences. We might have the burden on our shoulders to transform entire societies to prepare for the super-long way of life. While technology offers plenty of help, it depends entirely on us how we utilize its powers and how we guide our communities towards longevity. Anyhow, we hope we will live long and prosper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Read more exciting stories in my book, \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Famzn.to\u002F1LRAp3t\">\u003Cstrong>My Health: Upgraded\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fa>!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"10px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>At The Medical Futurist, we are building a community for making a bold vision about the future of healthcare reality today.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FFIbMejImnxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003Cp>If you’d like to support this mission, we invite you to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">join The Medical Futurist Patreon Community\u003C\u002Fa>. A community of empowered patients, future-oriented healthcare professionals, concerned health policymakers, sensible health tech developers, and enthusiastic medical students. If there were ever a time to join us, it is now. Every contribution, however big or small, powers our research and sustains our future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">\u003Cstrong style=\"background-color: #e71d3299; color: #000;\">Click here to support The Medical Futurist from as little as $3\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fa> – it only takes a minute. Thank you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n",false,{"rendered":22,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>Life expectancy is continuously growing but how far could it be stretched? Could you imagine that the average person lived beyond 130 years of age? How would longevity transform societies and our ways of life? 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THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Advanced medical technologies, disruptive innovations hand-in-hand with people willing to change will transform traditional healthcare into a modern healthcare system fit for the 21st century, says the first peer-reviewed paper covering the subject published by The Medical Futurist Institute. The thought-provoking article lays down the foundation for digital health with its accurate definition and frames the paradigm shift happening in healthcare. \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003C!--more-->\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>We Need To Define Digital Health\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The authors of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmhealth.amegroups.com\u002Farticle\u002Fview\u002F16494\u002F16602\">paper\u003C\u002Fa> argue that digital health means a qualitative change on the horizon of healthcare transforming its very nature. And while it comes down to the countless disruptive technological innovations that are flooding the medical field in the last couple of years, \u003Cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the essence of this change is not technological, but cultural\u003C\u002Fspan>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Technological transitions have taken place in healthcare before, explains the paper, but this is the very first time that they lead to a meaningful transformation of the status quo. When personal computers became widely available in the 1990s, e-health emerged. When such computers could be connected into networks, telemedical services appeared. The rise of social media networks gave space to medicine 2.0 and health 2.0; while penetration of mobile phones and later smartphones summoned mobile health. But from the 2010s, the rate at which disruptive technologies appear is inducing a qualitative change for both the patients and their caregivers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The paper calls this new phenomenon “digital health”, and define as\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\u003Cp style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u003Cem>the cultural transformation of how disruptive technologies that provide digital and objective data accessible to both caregivers and patients leads to an equal level doctor-patient relationship with shared decision-making and the democratization of care.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The authors describe that the use of technology only leads to better health outcomes if the related cultural challenges are acknowledged and the new needs of patients are met. That’s why we needed this definition – as part of acknowledging the changes around us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Ca class=\"img\" href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmhealth.amegroups.com\u002Farticle\u002Fview\u002F16494\u002F16602\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F10\u002F16494-pb3-r1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16424\"\u002F\u003C\u002Fa srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F10\u002F16494-pb3-r1.png 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F10\u002F16494-pb3-r1-768x360.png 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F10\u002F16494-pb3-r1-512x240.png 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F10\u002F16494-pb3-r1-458x215.png 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>What Will The Future Of Healthcare Look Like?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>With the rise of digital technologies, such as artificial narrow intelligence, robotics, virtual reality\u002Faugmented reality, telemedicine, 3D-printing, portable diagnostics, health sensors, wearables, etc. the entire structure of healthcare, as well as the roles of patients and doctors, will fundamentally shift from the current status quo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the infographics below, I summarized the cornerstones of the coming changes comparing the current, traditional healthcare system, its structure and its roles with the modern healthcare system characterized by digital health.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"327\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F10\u002Fdigital-health-_25010598-2.png\" alt=\"Define Digital Health\" class=\"wp-image-16422\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F10\u002Fdigital-health-_25010598-2.png 327w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F10\u002Fdigital-health-_25010598-2-192x512.png 192w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F10\u002Fdigital-health-_25010598-2-94x250.png 94w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2017\u002F10\u002Fdigital-health-_25010598-2-768x2042.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Digital Health Raises Challenging Questions\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The transformation of traditional healthcare leads to some serious ethical considerations and challenges policy-makers in unprecedented ways. Who should have access to health data? Is it lawful if employers or insurers want to gather data from their employees’ direct-to-consumer genetic testing results? What if someone hacks medical devices? How will we deal with medical robots? Whose responsibility will it be if it makes a mistake during surgery? What about gene editing and the possibility of designer babies? Should someone have the chance to pre-plan a human embryo?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Policy-makers, medical professionals and basically every responsible person should contemplate about the possible responses to pressing ethical questions and the challenges digital health means. As the waves of technologies are already flooding patients, the faster the appropriate answers come from the regulatory side, the better for the whole society. The reluctance and lack of incentives for physicians as well as policy-makers in this cultural transformation make patients the leading driving force in initiating changes. Although there are positive examples as \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fliving-with-an-artificial-pancreas\u002F\">the story of the FDA approving an artificial pancreas\u003C\u002Fa> as the result of the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.healthline.com\u002Fhealth\u002Fdiabetesmine\u002Finnovation\u002Fwe-are-not-waiting\">#WeAreNotWaiting movement\u003C\u002Fa>, individual entrepreneurship skills should not define patients’ health outcomes in the long run.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"545\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F12\u002Fhealthcare-progress-2016.jpg\" alt=\"Define Digital Health\" class=\"wp-image-14664\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F12\u002Fhealthcare-progress-2016.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F12\u002Fhealthcare-progress-2016-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F12\u002Fhealthcare-progress-2016-512x321.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F12\u002Fhealthcare-progress-2016-399x250.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Medical Professionals & Policy-Makers Should Be The Guiding Lights\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>No matter how difficult it is, medical professionals and policy-makers should always be one step ahead of technology. They must take up the role of guiding patients through the myriad of digital health technologies – but it is only possible if they are up-to-date and open-minded. On the one hand, they must ensure patients don’t turn to non-proven services or technological solutions, on the other, they must involve patients as partners in designing care and decision making.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As disruptive technologies have the potential of taking away repetitive and monotonous tasks from physicians, they will be able to dedicate their focus to the patients as guides through digital health. Moreover, medical professionals will be able to go back to the very basics of healthcare. They could provide empathy, social care and the human touch which seems to be so scarce in traditional medicine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>And what other goals could digital health possibly have than healing patients with empathy and the best of knowledge?\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"10px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>At The Medical Futurist, we are building a community for making a bold vision about the future of healthcare reality today.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FFIbMejImnxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003Cp>If you’d like to support this mission, we invite you to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">join The Medical Futurist Patreon Community\u003C\u002Fa>. 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Thank you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n",{"rendered":188,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>Advanced medical technologies, disruptive innovations hand-in-hand with people willing to change will transform traditional healthcare into a modern healthcare system fit for the 21st century, says the first peer-reviewed paper covering the subject published by The Medical Futurist Institute. 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