Great desire for extended life and health amongst the American public

Abstract

People want to live long, healthy lives. Previous surveys suggest very limited interest in much longer lifespans, but we show that stipulating good health changes responses to favor longer lives by an order of magnitude. Advances in aging research hold out hope for greatly slowed aging with associated good health. Understanding the public's desires correctly is important to avoid misallocation of resources for research.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2015.00353
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > Aston Pharmacy School
Additional Information: © 2016 Donner, Fortney, Calimport, Pfleger, Shah and Betts-LaCroix. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Uncontrolled Keywords: survey research,life extension,lifespan,public opinion,Genetics,Molecular Medicine,Genetics(clinical)
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2024 08:19
Date Deposited: 10 Mar 2016 10:40
Full Text Link: http://journal. ... .00353/abstract
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2016-01-20
Accepted Date: 2015-12-07
Submitted Date: 2015-09-24
Authors: Donner, Yoni
Fortney, Kristen
Calimport, Stuart R.G.
Pfleger, Karl
Shah, Munjal
Betts-LaCroix, Joe

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