Argument against extending healthspan, suggesting that lifespan consideration remains crucial in aging research.
What is the ultimate goal of biogerontology (the study of the biology of aging)? Ask a biogerontologist and a common answer these days is that it is to extend healthspan rather than lifespan. But is this really a coherent aim for the field? Here we argue that it is not.
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