Can geroscience be translated into healthcare?

The global transformation of the demographic structure of the population with rapid expansion of old persons, and especially of the oldest old, makes geriatric care the highest priority. As advances in medicine and public health succeed in achieving longer life spans, the focus has shifted to expanding health span and maximizing the quality of life. To achieve this goal, there has been a reconceptualization of the view of aging in the research community. The geroscience hypothesis poses that the biological mechanisms that drive aging are the root cause of the phenotypic transformations that are typically observe…