Healthy Longevity In Practice

What does it mean to age well? Why do some people maintain autonomy for longer? How is health built throughout life?

Healthy longevity is not simply about living longer, but about preserving functionality, autonomy, and adaptive capacity in the face of time’s changes. This book offers a clear and structured view of aging, showing the difference between life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, between the absence of disease and the real presence of health, and between chronological age and biological aging.

Throughout its chapters, the reader will encounter central themes such as:

autonomy and functional capacity

physiological reserve and resilience

frailty and accumulated vulnerability

life course and longitudinal prevention

social and material determinants of health

mental health, cognition, and social relationships

limits of the current discourse on longevity

In a world marked by demographic transition, chronic diseases, daily overload, and new monitoring technologies, understanding healthy longevity has become a social, institutional, and personal necessity.

This book is intended for students, professionals in fields related to health and behavior, as well as readers interested in understanding, in a serious, accessible, and comprehensive way, how a longer life with greater quality is built.