Traditional health span metrics do not fully capture an individual's quality of life or physical capacity.

“neither of those people are debilitated or disabled and therefore health by health span you know by traditional health span metrics they're both equal but they're nowhere near equal and so that's problem one that i have with the way we as a community talk about health span”

“freedom from disability and disease but that doesn't really capture it”

“the standard definition the period of Life free of disease or disability is totally insufficient in my view”

“I don't like the medical definition of Health span which I believe is quote the period of time in which an individual is free of disability and disease I find that to be a very unhelpful definition because it be but part of the reason it's awful is it's binary yeah and silly”

“our definitions I think are not wonderful right we talk about freedom from disability and disease but that doesn't really capture it I I can tell you A lot of people who don't qualify for having disability or disease but their health span is still poor”

“I don't like the medical definition Health span which I believe is quotee the period of time in which an individual is free of disability and disease I find that to be a very unhelpful definition because it but part of the reason it's awful is it's binary yeah and that's ex silly but if we made it analog instead of digital right I'm not saying that makes it easy it's still very challenging but now it allows us to start talking about things”