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Live Longer or Live Better? Why Not Do Both?
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Some people think age management medicine strives to help people live longer. But who wants to add years to their life if those years are spent being feeble and infirm in a nursing home?
Quality of life matters. In age management circles, it’s called squaring the curve.
It works like this. Imagine graphing vitality over time. Vitality is on the vertical axis. A high level represents vibrant health and vitality. Zero means death. The horizontal axis represents time — the longer a person lives, the further out their graph extends.
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