Improving physical, cognitive, and emotional health at any age is superior to being below average for that age.

“I think Health span is as a broader concept and it's not binary it is analog uh but it really constitutes some measure of cognitive health physical health and emotional health”

“Health span by itself is valuable at any given age whether it's 40 50 70 or 80 to for your age have better physical uh a better physical body a better cognitive mind better emotional health always exceeds being below it”

“the second Vector that makes up this uh longevity function is the health span Vector this is far more complicated to explain um it is far more subjective uh it is analog as opposed to digital meaning it is not sort of discreet on off it is you know variable and um it also has three components in the way that I think about it so one of those is a physical component one of them is a cognitive component and one of those is an emotional component”

“again Health span by itself is valuable at any given age whether it's 40 50 70 or 80 to for your age age have better physical uh a better physical body a better cognitive mind better emotional health”

“quality could be further broken down into sort of a physical piece so you know am I free of pain most of the time and am I able to physically do the things I enjoy doing and and that could range from just the activities of daily living and self-care to recreational activities if you like to Garden how long do you want to be able to do that if you play golf if you like to go for walks and Hikes or Swim um and then there's a cognitive piece so I don't think anybody would fully expect even at my age that my brain is kind of as sharp as hers is but I still want to believe that my mind is pretty sharp and I think we all sort of want that for as long as possible and then the final piece is sort of an emotional piece that deals with happiness sense of purpose connection to others”