Living Longer, Living Better. Rethinking Ageing in the Cotswolds
We talk a lot about living longer, but far less about how we are living those extra years. In the UK, roughly a fifth of life is now spent in poor health, as conditions like frailty, cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline crowd into what could have been our most active decades. This article unpacks the difference between lifespan and healthspan, what the new science of biological age and multi-system ageing is really telling us, and why your forties and fifties are the pivotal window to change your trajectory, not with fads, but with evidence-based strategy.