Healthspan: What It Means and Why It Matters to You

Well SupportedHealth span, emphasizing disease prevention and maintaining health earlier in life, has been a research focus since at least 2005.

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

Not SupportedHealth span is not defined by the absence of chronic disease, and a definition based on being free of disability and disease is unhelpful because it is binary.

Partially SupportedHealth span is poorly captured by definitions that exclude individuals with poor health who are not formally classified as disabled or diseased.

Partially Supported