The Importance of Incentives in Aging

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We need to condition the state pension age and healthy life expectancy. This would give ministries of finance incentive to invest in health rather than GDP. It also would help people live longer healthy life so they can work for longer. But I think we've just got to get incentives into the system to make sure that we age more healthily.

Co-host Janet Bush talks with Andrew J. Scott. Scott is professor of economics at London Business School; his work focuses on the economics of longevity. He's co-founder of the Longevity Forum and a member of the World Economic Forum's Council on Healthy Aging and Longevity, topics that are very much the focus of the McKinsey Health Institute. His book The 100-Year Life has sold more than a million copies in 15 languages. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following: