Health Span, Fun Retirement Communities 12-9-25

In this episode we discussed health span and intrinsic capacity, with Ellen Khalifa highlighting a New Scientist article. The article noted that by 2029, 1.4 billion people will be aged 60 or over, but health expectancy hasn't kept pace with life expectancy. Intrinsic capacity shows improvements in cohorts born in the 1950s compared to earlier generations. 

Elizabeth Magallon Fleury presented a New York Times article on fun retirement communities, showcasing various niche living options for baby boomers, including university-affiliated communities and those focused on specific interests like art, religion, and outdoor activities.   

Presented by Ellen Khalifa, Habits Coach for Healthspan and Wellspan
New Scientist Health Span by Graham Lawton
August 2025 original, Apple News recently featured it
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2489666-a-new-measure-of-health-is-revolutionising-how-we-think-about-ageing/
Apple access:
https://apple.news/AVAWN83pzT4SfKjEzwytmiQ

New vocabulary: “Sedentarism”
Intrinsic Capacity domains: locomotion, cognition, vision, psychological health, general vitality 

This document addresses Intrinsic Capacity page 26, WHO Integrated care for older people (‎ICOPE)‎: guidance for person-centred assessment and pathways in primary care, 12-29-24 page 23
Ellen mentions: “neurons that fire together, wire together”. We don’t want to feed ourselves negative messages.

Presented by Elizabeth Magallon Fleury, CAPS, Life's Encore Planning
NY Times 10-3-25 Fun Retirement Communities by Sarah Bahr
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/realestate/fun-retirement-communities.html
Being around like-minded people

We discussed colleges benefiting from 65+ retirement communities revenue in News for the Ages 11-18-25

Elizabeth likes Penn State’s assisted living. It is really integrated, including their sporting events and arts 

She mentioned co-living and co-housing are different. Charles Durrett for co-housing

Debbie Howard's summary of this show.

Discussion hosted by: Linda Sherman, Ray Gordon and Debbie Howard

BoomerTechTalk.com episode page

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 4:04 Health Span
• 24:58 Fun Retirement Communities
• 44:20 Debbie Howard Summary