2024 Longevity Advent Calendar: Days 6-10

This is a set of #longevity related items as we approach the Christmas holiday. Some items are informational, others are meant to entertain.

Day 6: Club Vita Web Series - The Risk of Living Longer

Ulrich Stengele and Douglas Anderson bring in several experts to tackle a bunch of interesting topics in this series of webcasts. The coverage is balanced, thought-provoking, and applicable to technical and not technical audiences. Here is list of topics covered thusfar.

THE RISK OF LIVING LONGER

1. An Introduction to the Question of Human Longevity: How Long Can We Go?
2. The Biology of Aging
3. Cancer Research
4. Biological Clocks
5. Using Big Data and AI to Improve and Advance Longevity,
6. Advancing From Cure to Prevention
7. Modelling Gero-therapeutic Interventions
8. Behavioural Change
9. Preventing Dimentia

Club Vita was formed in 2008 to manage pension risk in the UK.

Day 7: A New Longevity App

The Longevity Assistant was intended to be an app-like utility to add more life to your life through reminders to engage in healthier behaviors.

Since its inception in 2018, other companies have developed more sophisticated and AI-enabled longevity guides.

The team at Longr released "The Longevity AI" a free longevity coach for everyone. It connects to wearables and offers a biological age estimate. It can scan meals, but other items may require manual and tracking.

Similar guides include:

• Longevity AI by Longevity.AI is not to be confused with the product by Longr, but is inteded to incorporate with a broader health dashboard including data from lab tests.
• Longevity Path includes on demand meditations and fitness plans.
• Longevity Coach developed by The Longevity Institute targets the root causes of various conditions, including stress, depression, obesity, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and dementia.

Day 8: Updated Mortality Improvement Models (MIM)

The Society of Actuaries created the Mortality Improvement Models in 2021.

"Different mortality projection methodologies are utilized by actuaries across applications and practice areas. As a result, the MIM Advisory Group (“Advisory Group”) developed a single framework to serve as a consistent base for practitioners in projecting mortality improvement."

A tutorial on this tool is available on the SOA website:

https://cdn-files.soa.org/research/videos/2024/mim-data-tool-instruction-video.mp4

Here is an orientation to the original MIM.

Day 9: The Saturnian Tales

The Saturnian Tales is collection of three short stories by neuroscientist and addiction researcher Chris Rabane, Ph. D, who explores some of the darker sides of the consequences of controlling the aging process. The tales aren't always feel good stories, but they do provide intriguing thoughts.

Day 10: The Old Age Mortality Series

Again, another gem from the SOA Research Institute, the Old Age Mortality series takes a deeper dive into the upper ends of the aging curves.

Because not very many people make it to the oldest ages, the amount of data about mortality at the far end of the aging spectrum is sparse.

And standard mortality patterns deviate at older ages, a phenomenon known as "the mortality plateau" or more generally mortality deceleration.

The Old Age Mortality series looks at various causes of death and how they manifest at older ages, and what the prognosis is for the future,

The first of these was an expert panel on Cancer.

https://www.soa.org/resources/research-reports/2024/older-age-mortality/