A New Meaning of 'Health is Wealth’

While these ideas might seem outlandish to the general public, these are just another Tuesday for those working in the field of longevity and its unusual clientele. For people like Bernegger and his longevity clinic Ayun, billionaires wanting to live forever are just part of the daily routine.

However, this opens the door to broader societal questions. Is there a new meaning to ‘health is wealth’? Who can afford this type of health? Is the next luxury commodity, for those who can already afford everything, shopping for life itself? However, a closer look reveals the conference’s deeper aim: finding solutions for the future of humanity. It is the desperately needed redesign of a society that is starting to face the consequences of consistently outsmarting evolution.

The Silver Tsunami and the Longevity Economy

The Silver Tsunami is one of the greatest questions facing mankind. It is the looming existential and economic crisis of a super-aging society. The aging demographic is costing governments trillions of dollars in healthcare, and crumbling pension systems sit around the world like ticking time bombs. Increasing longevity, the tenure of working life, and improving the quality of health of the elderly could possibly be the antidote. Tina Woods, Co-Founder and CEO of Longevity International, who believes longevity is a matter of health economics, shares how the UK economy is being dragged down by poor health and its aging population. She stresses that more needs to be done in policy advocacy and improving longevity via prevention. This would include improved healthcare, but also addressing systemic inequalities that contribute to poor health.

However, adequate investments are also needed to bring many necessary new medical technologies from the lab to the public. The Longevity Investors Conference aspires to be precisely this intersection between investors and the brightest minds in longevity science. «We will not crack the problem of aging properly and seriously postpone the health problem of late life without major breakthroughs in the lab,» says de Grey. The Longevity Market is projected to surpass $600 billion in the future.