with their longevity. In fact, the gap between the average life span and the
average health span is now over a decade and widening.
Because of this gap, someone may reasonably live to be 90
years old, but
the last 10 or more years of life may be spent in a bed, in a nursing home or
with dementia. For many, this isn’t much of a life — and it’s certainly not
the life they’d dreamed of living.