A
new book "The Ageless Generation: How Advances in Biomedicine Will
Transform the Global Economy" by a director of the Biogerontology
Research Foundation and the International Aging Research Portfolio
project, Alex Zhavoronkov, PhD will be released next week. Until the 2nd
of July it will be on pre-order sale with Amazon providing 33% on
hardcover and 59% on Kindle editions. Please consider taking advantage
of this opportunity before the prices go up.
Over the past 20
years, the biomedical research community has been delivering hundreds of
breakthroughs expected to extend human lifespan beyond thresholds
imaginable today. Biomedical innovations typically reach the mass market
in much slower fashion than those from information technology. They
follow a paradigm where neither demand, in the form of the consumer, nor
supply, in the form of the innovator, can significantly accelerate the
process. Nevertheless, many of the advances made over the past three
decades are already propagating into mainstream clinical practice and
converging with other technologies extending our life spans. Biomedicine
will transform our society forever by allowing people to live longer
and to continue working and contributing financially to the economy
longer, rather than entering into retirement and draining the economy
through pensions and senior healthcare. Old age will become a concept of
the past, breakthroughs in regenerative medicine will continue, and an
unprecedented boom to the global economy, with an influx of older
able-bodied workers and consumers, will be a reality.
However,
biomedical advances are not all the same. The current paradigm in
biomedical research, clinical regulation and healthcare created a spur
of costly procedures that provide marginal increases late in life
extending the "last mile", with the vast percentage of the lifetime
healthcare costs being spent in the last few years of patient's life,
increasing the burden on the economy and society. In the near-term,
unless the governments of the debt-laden developed countries make
proactive policy changes, there is a possibility of lengthy economic
decline and even collapse. The book presents several scenarios and
proposes possible solutions on both government and individual levels.
Hardcover:
http://www.amazon.com/
Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/
Editorial Reviews:
“The Ageless Generation addresses the greatest socio-political/
--Charles Cantor, Chief Scientific Officer, Sequenom, Inc., and Professor Emeritus, Boston University
"This
book shatters the illusion of retiring at 65, correlating the
importance of research into repairing and slowing age-related damage
with social security savings that will make even the most hardened
policy maker sit up. The author’s passion for his subject gives a unique
impetus to the writing. We must act now."
-- Benjie H. Fraser, Senior Vice President, JP Morgan
“Aging
is getting interesting! Zhavoronkov provides a concise but thorough
view of aging from changing global demographics to the latest research.
Importantly, he outlines a point-by-point plan centered around aging
research that if realized could solve the aging population problem,
create major economic benefits and enhance dramatically the quality of
life for elders. Everyone should take heed. The choices we make now will
impact us all in the near future.”
--Brian Kennedy, Ph.D., President and CEO, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
"The
research of Alex Zhavoronkov paints a picture of frightening reality:
that our children might just live to 130. The financial and economic
consequences of this cry out for more urgent attention from all sides of
society. A huge physchological readjustment in our attitude towards
retirement, as we know it, is required for us to start to cope with this
new future."
--Hugh Gallagher, Chairman, International Employee Benefits Association
"The
devastating impact of population aging in the decades to come is
becoming like the proverbial weather: everyone is talking about it but
no one is doing anything about it. Zhavoronkov starkly sets out the
nature and trajectory of this crisis - and then he elaborates what few
others have yet described, and no one so expertly: the unique solution
to it, namely the development of comprehensive rejuvenation medicine
that will restore and maintain the health of the elderly so that they
can continue to contribute wealth to society. This book has the
potential to define medium-term economic and social policy for the
entire industrialized world."
--Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D., Chief Science Officer, SENS Research Foundation
"Alex
Zhavoronkov claims that we do not have to age the way all other
generations did. Or... possibly... at all? Controversial and assertive,
he lays out the case for expanding research into what makes all human
beings sink into twilight before a century of life. Shall we adjust
social policies for an era of spry oldsters, or even semi-immortals?
These matters will roil our arguments for the next five decades. The
Ageless Generation presents one side with knowledge and verve."
--David Brin, bestselling author of Kiln People, Foundation’s Triumph, and many others
Monday, June 24, 2013
The Ageless Generation will be published on July 2nd
4:19 PM
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