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Hi everyone!

EHF Advisor, prof. Arnold Mitnitsky answers questions about aging, frailty index, longevity, mathematical models that help to understand and fight against aging.

Take a look at the 3rd part of his comments.

7. What does eHealth First mean for me?
Our work with eHealth First is in the very beginning. The way I am thinking about health and its measurement, its use in health care, is quite similar to what eHealth First is planning to do (see the White Paper for details). I am happy that my expertise in mathematical modeling and data analysis of complex biomedical systems gives me additional opportunities to push forward the agenda of understanding and thus improving health of individuals that ultimately will affect the quality of life of people in the world. I appreciate eHealth First for giving such opportunities.

8. What would we do, if many people live much longer than now?
Of course, aging of the populations presents some serious challenges to the healthcare systems all over the World. Such challenges are well known –increasing load on the health care is one of them. There are several scenarios that might happen if people live longer under discussion. Briefly, I think, most likely people will mature later than now, and keep changing slower than now. I see that the stretching the time scale of life is rather likely. People will go to retirement later than now, will have more productive life. In other words, the pace of aging will slow down. This will lead to the life extension and to the health span extension. I also believe that the society will find the way of mitigating any possible negative consequences of the life extension. In this I way, my view is rather optimistic.