Enabling a Virtuous Cycle for Healthy Longevity in the U.S.- Roadmap Summit | Opening Remarks

Global aging provides an unprecedented opportunity and challenge. Population aging has been viewed as burdensome to society and families, costly to governments, and a driver of economic decline. But population aging as a burden is not inevitable. Emerging bodies of research highlight the strengths of older people and their many contributions to families and societies through paid work, caregiving, and volunteering. These contributions could expand exponentially if barriers to full participation in society are removed.

The National Academy of Medicine’s Global Roadmap for Healthy Longevity report provides guidance to societies on how to create more years of good health through strengthening their social infrastructure, physical environment, health systems, and opportunities for education, work, and retirement. Good health, in turn, increases social, human, and economic capital.

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