Linking Geroscience and Integrated Care to Reinforce Prevention

Recent advances in the field of geroscience are causing us to rethink traditional models of health and health care. Conventional approaches generally start with the diagnosis of a health condition, identify a proximal cause (and if possible, abolish it), and manage any adverse consequences. Prevention often focuses on proximal risk factors. These disease-based models worked well for infectious disease and other acute conditions but have been less successful with the chronic conditions which are now the dominant disease burden in the second half of life.