Living healthier, living longer: announcing new longevity affiliation

Living longer is one thing. Living longer with the strength, health, independence, and energy to keep doing what matters to us is something else.

There’s a word for that: Healthspan is defined as "the portion of our lives we spend in good health and with meaningful function."

It's an idea we're exploring in a new way. Earlier this year, WesleyLife established a relationship with the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, a California-based biomedical research organization devoted exclusively to understanding aging and extending healthy years of life.

Vision = action

Through Buck’s Longevity-Inspired Vitality Education (LIVE) program, WesleyLife communities now have access to research-based education about the science of healthy aging. Topics range from brain health, sleep, and metabolism to strength, balance, nutrition, and other factors that can influence how we experience aging.

The relationship is one more way WesleyLife is assigning action to its vision to be the most dynamic and inclusive champion to revolutionize the experience of aging.

Like The Buck Institute, we believe revolutionizing aging means challenging the assumption that growing older is simply about managing decline. It means continuing to ask what helps people remain strong, curious, connected, purposeful, and engaged in their own well-being, and then bringing the best available knowledge into the places where people live their everyday lives.

WesleyLife communities are beginning to incorporate Buck Institute resources into well-being programming, with plans to expand access and align the content with other well-being initiatives in 2027. The possibilities extend beyond residents as well, with opportunities to share healthy-aging education more broadly across WesleyLife.

And people are already taking notice; at least one WesleyLife resident has become so interested in what they’ve learned through the Buck Institute resources that they’re independently exploring the science of healthspan even further.

We’ll introduce you to that resident soon. Then, we'll take a closer look at what the rapidly evolving science of healthspan might mean for all of us.