Chapter 9Intelligent Aging Is Healthcare’s Moonshot

DOI: 10.4324/9781003286103-9

It’s not how old you are, it’s how you are old.

Jules Renard

Have you ever had a perfect workday? I did a while back. I was riding out the pandemic in a fixer-upper farmhouse near Monterey, California, when I was invited to meet with America’s foremost gerontologist and aging expert Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D.

After an amazing drive down the coastal highway, I arrived at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur. Having spent endless hours trapped in my home office doing virtual meetings, it was a delight to spend the day sitting in Adirondack chairs on a cliff by the ocean talking with Dychtwald about the challenges and opportunities of using AI to rethink how to empower older ...

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