The Longevity Landscape: Value Creation for Healthy Aging

BackgroundThe global aging population underscores a critical need to tackle accompanying health and economic challenges, at all levels of society. This All-of-Society approach emphasizes the involvement of various stakeholders--governments, NGOs, researcher centers, private companies, local communities, and opinion leaders--to collectively promote healthy aging. However, how stakeholders enable healthy longevity remains unclear. ObjectiveThis study examines how global stakeholders (governments, NGOs, researcher centers, private companies, local communities, and opinion leaders) create value towards healthy longevity. We identify the healthy longevity dimension of stakeholders value propositions and examine alignment between their propositions as an indicator of shared goals. MethodsFollowing the All-of-Society approach, we analyzed the healthy longevity aspects of value propositions among the six classes of stakeholders (N=128). We (1) employed semantic topic modeling to identify the primary value proposition topics as related to healthy longevity and (2) computed proposition alignment using similarity networks. ResultsOur analysis revealed varying degrees of alignment between stakeholders healthy longevity propositions, with the lowest alignment observed for local communities and researcher centers. ConclusionsFindings underscore a key need to strengthen synergies between academic and community-based initiatives to promote translational science and highlight opportunities for strategic partnerships in the evolving healthy longevity field. What is already known on this topicThe National Academy of Medicines All-of-Society approach advocates for multi-stakeholder engagement towards healthy longevity, but specific stakeholder contributions, and their alignment toward shared goals, are poorly understood. What this study addsTo our knowledge, this study is the first to provide empirical evidence into the value propositions of healthy longevity stakeholders on a societal scale. It highlights key areas where multi-stakeholder collaboration can be strengthened--particularly between academic and local community initiatives--and proposes five strategies to strengthen collaboration. How this study might affect research, practice, or policyPrioritizing (1) community-based participatory research, (2) translating healthy aging-related research findings into accessible resources, (3) prioritizing equity in intervention delivery, (4) establishing community advisory boards, and (5) developing knowledge translation and training programs, could potentially better align academic and community efforts towards more aligned, equitable and effective healthy longevity initiatives.