Four For Friday | August 4, 2023
LF69 | Future of longevity, Martha Stewart's new tech, new CMS dementia model, ethics of the unborn
Welcome to a Looking Forward’s Four For Friday. Four things that have piqued my interest this week. Enjoy!
The future of longevity
A post that looks at longevity using the perspective of applying health interventions to already healthy people. It sounds weird, but makes perfect sense. It traces previous approaches: sanitation, vaccines and more recently screening, and sees an explosion of efforts, new technologies and metrics to prevent people from getting sick in the first place.
Martha Stewart endorses a new aging-focused wearable
Martha Stewart’s come out supporting a new, good-looking wearable that aims to help people stay independent - without stigma.
New dementia care model helps people stay independent
Big news for home-based care providers in the US, CMS has released a new model - Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) - to provide support for caregivers helping people with dementia stay independent.
Should we care about people who need never exist?
An essay to ponder for the weekend from The Economist: should we incorporate people who don’t exist into our decision making for today’s policies.
For every 100 people killed by cancer, the world also loses the two children these cancer victims might have had. For every 100 people killed on the road, society loses 32 potential children.
However, we don’t include the unborn into our calculations for cancer vs traffic accidents. There’s a move afoot to move from a neutral stance to bring those potentially living in the future into today’s policies. Would you sacrifice your quality of life today to benefit unborn generations?
That’s all for this week. As always, feedback welcome. Feel free to share insights or links of interest.
- Stephen