I cant access the whole thing. I wonder if they take a fatalistic approach to the potential for societal fixes and or if they exaggerate the size of the potential challenges in the "social milieu". You often hear people assert things like tenure and retirement and health insurance and things like that will become insurmountable challenges. Its great to see this topic is making its rounds. The discussion on the matter will eventually help people align themselves with the path forward on it.
http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/21208060
Abstract
Pursuance of longevity is not only combating decrepitude but it is also extending the health span; otherwise longevity would result in a universal medical and social burden. As revealed by the literature, the attainment of a healthy life could be impacted by the social milieu. An inquiry of this kind could hardly be settled by mere laboratory endeavors, and thus serious discussion of the social dimension of life span extension is imperative. However, little attention has been paid to this need in the biogerontological field. In view of this gap, the aim of this article is to explore the health relationship of the social milieu by using social relations as an example and to raise the awareness within our biogerontological community of the relevance of the social milieu to our existing efforts on longevity pursuance. It is hoped that through this article and with the success of antiaging therapies, not only could collaborative work between biogerontologists and scholars in other disciplines be stimulated, but indefinite extension of bothlife span and health span could also be achieved in the future.
