<div dir="ltr">Perhaps the first point might be slightly reformulated -<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">1) Ensuring a significant increase of governmental funding for goal oriented progress on preventing the degenerative aging process, and the derivative chronic noncommunicable diseases and disabilitie<i>s</i>, and for extending healthy and productive life during the entire life course.</span><br>
</div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">That is to stress both the health and economic rationale for prioritizing *healthy* life extension research and practice.</span></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 2013-10-22 14:32, Ilia Stambler wrote:<br>
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I wonder if I may ask what other topics are to be discussed?<br>
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Well, me and professor Linda Partridge will have 10 minutes each, and the Minister for Care and Ageing is presumably busy enough to escape after having done his job. So the total amount of topics will be very, very limited.<br>
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The core idea is to explain to the politicians that we are seeing increases in life expectancy, that longevity risk (uncertainty about future mortality) is going up, and that there are potential for interventions to extended lifespan. So weought to develop strategies for dealing with this. I will talk about the ethical and social motivations why longevity is a good thing.<br>
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Hmm, interesting realization: the Minister is on the health side rather than research. So he might have less ability to help research, but ought to be good for the advisory board idea.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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Dr Anders Sandberg<br>
Future of Humanity Institute<br>
Oxford Martin School<br>
Oxford University<br>
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