If this book had an alternate title in draft form, it could be aptly titled An Evergreen Agenda, a concept borrowed from the nature of an evergreen plant, carried throughout the book as Scott unfolds social innovations for a society charting its way, making for a better, as he says “universally and continually relevant” longer life.
With The Longevity Imperative, Scott covers so many topic areas of a longevity society, reframed as an evergreen society in the third part of the book. First in part one though, with what has been described as The Longevity Economy in Joseph Coughlin’s seminal book (2017), Scott converts us to the evergreen economy.
In wide-ranging coverage, the economy discussion moves from where we’ve been, to where we’re at and where we could be, looking at health systems, the science of aging, (including current geroscience research investments), economics & economic dividends of an older workforce, personal finances and pensions. When I read “we need to encourage an evergreen society not an aging society” I found lift off with Scott’s book.
Change Rangers Library – more from a selected best from 2001- 2024
Literature and Ageing – Edited by Elizabeth Barry & Margery Vibe Skagen (Boydell & Brewer) 2020
