Steven Baxter (@LongevityBaxter) profile picture

Promotes the provision of clear advice on all matters longevity related; works closely with insurers and pension schemes. (All views are my own)

London
Joined November 2012
Continued #inequalities in life expectancy also highlighted in todays @ONS data. Even pre-pandemic the shortest lived areas had life expectancy below what the longest lived areas experienced in 2001-3 bit.ly/3ENNmN2
Todays longevity publications by @ONS have a host of insights including the predictable drop in period life expectancy owing to COVID pandemic. bit.ly/3AN3YlC
To everyone in business.... this is really important. Please do your upmost to support your staff if they have a key worker as a partner. Schools are operating to an absolutely minimum - please help them, our vulnerable and our key workers by being as flexible as poss
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Encouraging news amongst today's PM press conference that we are making progress on antibody testing. Will be crucial to managing our way out of "lockdown" #covid19
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Is the National Health Service more of a National Sickness Service? Should it be refocused on being a National Wellness Service to direct greater attention to prevention? Emerging thought from #longevityweek
Quality of life vs quantity of life? Should we focus on quality and accept quantity as (hopefully) a positive bi-product? Interesting start to Longevity UK event for #longevityweek
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Looking forward to todays #longevity webinar on #longevitytrends. Is it #austerity? #dementia? #flu? or something else? bit.ly/2QlGDBt
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Fascinating ideas from @RobCochran1874 around use of augmented reality to help people visualise themselves in retirement - and interesting to see other organisations looking to embed creative communication techniques to engage on long term savings #betterfutures19
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Are we facing a lost generation for long term savings? Legislation, treasury and communication interventions needed? #betterfutures19
75% of delegates would sacrifice more of their income for a more equal society. Possible changes this could finance include health equality initiatives, greater exchequer input into auto enrolment, greater collectivism in social care and data trade arrangements #betterfutures19
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Time to have those difficult questions on healthy lifespans and the role of technology and policy? Panel at #betterfutures19 believe so...
Decide on flu vaccine mutation later in year - eminently doable, cheap to implement and reduces the frailty decline drag on longevity #betterfutures19
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#IFoALecture With dementia a growing cause of death can Peter offer some thoughts on the likely genetic 'hereditary' of dementia? Would we expect the explanatory power of genetics to rise or fall with rising prominence of dementia?
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Looking forward to our teenage years as an international longevity data platform - thanks to all who attended @clubvita 10th birthday
Thanks to @Peterkjoshi, @Medical_Intel and Richard Oakley for a great discussion on personalised medicine dividend @clubvita 10th bday
4 in 10 cancer cases an be prevented. @clubvita 10th bday
If your mother lived 10 years longer than average you may gain 9 months. Same for father and additive. Peter Joshi @clubvita 10th bday
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Height 80% inherited, lifespan just 15%. #longevity @clubvita 10th birthday
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Is lifespan genetic? How much is this inheritance via the mechanism of DNA? Great thoughts from Peter Joshi @clubvita 20th bday
Linking Club Vita’s #longevity assumptions at the individual level seamlessly into valuation systems - thanks to Michael Carse @RiskFirst_ @clubvita 10th birthday
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