Ageless Aging: How Women Can Live Better and Longer [Video]

Women have a longer lifespan, but can they also increase their health-span? Age Wave Co-Founder Maddy Dychtwald discusses her latest book, Ageless Aging, on women’s health and longevity.

When entrepreneur and futurist Maddy Dychtwald took a careful look at the longevity space, she found there were very few books out there tailored to women and the full picture of female health. Women do tend to live longer than men. But they’re also at higher risk for many health issues, including Alzheimer’s disease.How should women be thinking about aging to achieve not only longer lives, but healthier ones?

“We have tremendous agency over our own health and well-being,” explains Dychtwald, who through her organization Age Wave helps women understand and address the far-reaching impacts of longevity and the world’s aging population. “That’s part of what drove me to write my book Ageless Aging, to get that message out to other women like myself, who don’t want to …