"Healthy aging" is a oxymoron and people should stop using it. Aging is by definition a rise in mortality risk occurring due to the progressive failure of bodil

"Healthy aging" is a oxymoron and people should stop using it. Aging is by definition a rise in mortality risk occurring due to the progressive failure of bodily systems. It is the opposite of health. You cannot age healthily. It is an impossibility. If you are aging, your health is deteriorating. To say you want to do something about aging by saying that you want to allow it to continue - but "healthily" - is to immediately engineer the defeat of whatever it is you then plan to do, because it won't be anything meaningful. The only way to address aging is to find a piece of it, a cause, and reverse or repair that cause. To attack aging. To oppose it. To try to end it. Running around trying to figure out why some people have a 1.1% chance of living to 100 rather than a 1% chance of living to 100 isn't helpful. Yes, it will probably tell you something about how our biology works when it is horribly damaged, but why would we care about that, rather than caring about what the damage is and how to repair it? So very much of aging research is completely irrelevant to progress in human health because it is misdirected in this way.