Are You Healthy or Just Undiagnosed? The Science of Healthy Ageing | Prof. John Beard

What if you could improve your health before a disease even appears? Most of us think we are healthy until a doctor tells us otherwise. But according to Professor John Beard, who helped develop the World Health Organization’s framework for healthy ageing, we need to rethink how we measure health as we grow older.
In this insightful conversation with Shimona Kanwar, Professor Beard explains intrinsic capacity—a holistic approach to understanding how well we think, move, sense the world, maintain psychological well-being, and preserve our vitality throughout life. Rather than waiting for…
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