We're talking about increasing healthy years within that life span.
It's not just how many years you have left that matters, but how many healthy years.
The way to lengthen your life, Dr. Perls pointed out, is to add healthy years.
A Japanese citizen can expect to lead a life of 74.5 healthy years, it said.
Airlines fear being squeezed just as profits fall after several healthy years.
It's the late 21st century, in an America dedicated to "one hundred healthy years for every man, woman and child".
Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator.
Since DALYs represent the number of healthy years lost due to disability or death, these figures translate into huge economic losses.
Even in the days when G.M. was healthy, years ago, most of its 30-and-out retirees were too young to qualify for Social Security.
From 2015 to 2025, it is estimated that the number of healthy years lost due to dementia will increase by 82% in India and by 56% in China.
An inevitable byproduct of rising life expectancy, they say; but surely a gift of progress should be the granting of more healthy years of leisure, not fewer.
