# Global Longevity Initiative

Shaping the future of longer lives.

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## Bringing together leaders across business, government, and civil society to advance solutions that strengthen financial resilience and health systems to enable longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives.

Longer lives are one of the defining demographic trends of the 21st century. The opportunity is not simply to add years to life, but to ensure those years are healthier, more financially resilient and more fulfilling.The Global Longevity Initiative is a systems-level approach, connecting healthy longevity and the longevity economy under a shared global agenda. By convening leaders across sectors, it aims to shift from reactive care to proactive health, from retirement planning to lifelong financial resilience, and from fragmented efforts to coordinated cross-sectoral action.


## A systems approach to Longevity

The Global Longevity initiative aims to transform demographic challenges into societal opportunities through a forward-looking and holistic rethinking of current systems. Our key focus areas are:


### Financial Resilience

From retirement planning to lifelong financial resilience.


### Healthy Living

From reactive care to proactive health across the life course.


### Collective Action

From fragmented systems to coordinated action.


### Purpose & Connection

From social isolation to intergenerational connection.


## One topic, multiple lenses

The Global Longevity Initiative breaks down siloes and approaches the demographic transition both holistically and through multiple, focused lenses.


### Longevity Economy Initiative

Tackling demographic challenges to ensure financial resilience for every generation


### Healthy Longevity

Building health and well-being across the life course


### Longevity Innovation

Scaling global longevity solutions focusing on finance, health and well-being


## Mobilizing cross-sector leadership

No single organization or sector can drive the systemic change needed to unlock the opportunity of longer lives. The Global Longevity Initiative brings together leaders with complementary roles to drive system-wide change.


### Private                        Sector

Develop and scale solutions.


### Public                                    Sector

Shape the policy and systems.


### International Organizations

Align global priorities.


### Civil Society & Academia

Generate evidence and drive adoption.


## Forum Insights

*World Economic Forum insights and analysis*


### Get involved with the initiative

Learn more about how to collaborate with us.

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