Examines longevity's relation with disease management, indicating a shift in understanding aging and health.
A common misconception is that increasing longevity reflects slower aging. Instead, most longevity gain comes from medical advances that allow survival with disease, rather than changes to the biology of aging itself, challenging how we study aging and health.
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