Longevity Practice
Compression of morbidity
James Fries's 1980 paper and the longevity goal worth wanting
The goal of medicine, Fries argued, should not be to extend life but to compress the period of late-life disease into as short a window as possible. Forty-five years on, the framework remains the right way to think about the longevity project — and a useful corrective to the language of "anti-ageing".
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By Mick
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