> We have more than doubled the global life expectancy in the last 100 years, but the length of our healthy lives has not increased at the same rate. There’s currently a 12-year gap between U.S. life expectancy and health expectancy, meaning people are living longer, but spend a longer period of late life in poorer health..
> Before 2050, the world's population over 60 years old is expected to almost double from 12% to 22% – creating urgency to find novel solutions for healthy aging. We believe XPRIZE’s unique approach can incentivize necessary breakthroughs to extend healthspan and change the way we experience aging for everyone.
> We have more than doubled the global life expectancy in the last 100 years, but the length of our healthy lives has not increased at the same rate. There’s currently a 12-year gap between U.S. life expectancy and health expectancy, meaning people are living longer, but spend a longer period of late life in poorer health..
> Before 2050, the world's population over 60 years old is expected to almost double from 12% to 22% – creating urgency to find novel solutions for healthy aging. We believe XPRIZE’s unique approach can incentivize necessary breakthroughs to extend healthspan and change the way we experience aging for everyone.
The competition is further described at https://www.xprize.org/prizes/healthspan, and I'm quite excited.