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General interest | Top charts

Top Charts 23-02: Healthcare spending and longevity

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has recently introduced a series of provisions aimed at reducing the price of prescription drugs in the US. In this edition of Top Charts, Erik Pickett and Carmen Gatta explore what this could mean for longevity and health expenditure in the US and beyond.

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General interest | Top charts

Top Charts 23-04: What happened in the US in 2022?

By the start of 2022, day-to-day life in the US had largely returned to ‘normal’ with most public health precautions introduced to combat COVID-19 being dropped. With this environment, how did excess mortality in the US play out and will 2022 mortality data be representative of the future? Erik Pickett explores this issue in our latest edition of Top Charts. (For a more in depth dive into this subject, check out our recent webinar.)

24 April 2023

Research & technical | Research & technical notes

CV22 US VitaCurves technical papers

Technical papers on modeling techniques and underlying data to accompany the release of our CV22 US VitaCurves model. This new release introduces adjustments for COVID-19 into the US VitaCurves model.

13 April 2023

General interest | Top charts

Top Charts 23-03: Universal state retirement ages

There has recently been widespread debate across the globe (e.g. in Canada, the UK, the US and France) about potential increases in state retirement ages. Much of the debate has focused on the increases in life expectancy since the introduction of state retirement provisions – but life expectancy is not the same for everyone in society. In this edition of Top Charts, Alexandra Sonnenwirth explores this issue and asks whether it’s fair to have a one-size fits all retirement age.

30 March 2023

General interest | Personal blogs

Longevity solved? Erik Pickett meets ChatGPT

With all the recent buzz around the Artificial Intelligence language model, ChatGPT, the Club Vita team were keen to understand how it might help us understand the world of longevity and what limitations may exist when using such a tool. Erik Pickett sets out to “interview” ChatGPT to find out.

28 March 2023

General interest | Top charts

Top Charts 23-02: Healthcare spending and longevity

28 February 2023

Opinion & experiences | Behavioral economics blogs

Mental accounting – is money still fungible at Christmas?

This Christmas, I bought my partner a gift card. At first glance this seems like an irrational thing to do. The cash equivalent could have been spent on anything, including the items covered by the card; this interchangeable use of money is a central principle in classical economics known as the fungibility of money. Did I willingly reduce the value of my gift, or does this economic principle fail in the gift giving environment?

10 January 2023

General interest | Top charts

Top Charts 22-11: Total number of human lives and deaths ever

In this edition of Top Charts, Erik Pickett and Carmen Gatta look at the total number of people who have ever lived and died. Are more people alive today than have lived and died in the past?

5 December 2022

General interest | VitaMins

VitaMins Health: Wearable technology - all dressed up but where will it go?

Availability of, and interest in, wearable technology is on the rise. However, is it having as positive an impact on our physical activity, our mental health, and our life expectancy as we hope?

17 November 2022

General interest | Pandemic updates

How different states have experienced COVID-19 so far (data up to Sep 10, 2022)

This is an update of our analysis of state-level excess mortality data up to September 10, 2022 (data available as at October 13, 2022). COVID-19 continued to contribute to excess mortality through 2022, with the number of COVID-19 deaths in the US now over 1.1M.

17 November 2022

General interest | Top charts

Top Charts 22-08: Insulation of US DB pension plans from COVID-19

In this edition of Top Charts, Carmen Gatta takes a look at relative mortality in a large geographically concentrated pension plan in the US and compares it to the state-wide picture for excess mortality.

15 August 2022

Opinion & experiences | Behavioral economics blogs

Reactance – I won’t do what you tell me!

“Why don’t you just do as you’re told?” is a phrase I heard many times as a child. Perhaps I often had a strong aversion to the specific instructions I was given, or perhaps I really didn’t like being told what to do.

19 July 2022

General interest | VitaMins

VitaMins Health: Representative Concentration Pathways

As carbon emissions continue to grow, scientists are trying to understand the potential impacts of future climate change scenarios on health.

18 July 2022

Explainers | External publications

If Longevity Risk is an Asset Class, How Do We Make It More Tradeable?

Over the years, we have witnessed the successful commoditisation of several risks, including credit risk, interest rate risk and property catastrophe risk, opening up their trade to capital markets investors.

14 July 2022

Business updates | Press releases

Club Vita bolsters international pension team with three key appointments

Club Vita, an international leader in longevity data analytics, today announced several appointments to bolster their pension team across the globe.

13 July 2022

General interest | Top charts

Top Charts 22-06: How have life expectancy and health adjusted life expectancy changed over time?

In this edition of Top Charts, Shantel Aris discusses life expectancy and health adjusted life expectancy (HALE) in Canada, the UK, and the US and how these have changed over time.

14 June 2022

General interest | Top charts

Top Charts 22-05: Retirement preparedness vs longevity pessimism

In this edition of Top Charts, Erik Pickett presents a second chart from our recent Longevity, lifestyle and retirement perception survey, 2022 showing the relationship between retirement preparedness and longevity pessimism in Canada, the UK and US.

25 May 2022

Research & technical | Research & technical notes

Lifestyle and Retirement Perception Survey 2022

Club Vita’s Longevity, Lifestyle and Retirement Perception Survey 2022

27 April 2022

General interest | VitaMins

VitaMins Health: Long COVID – in it for the long haul?

Even 12 months after the start of the pandemic, professionals are having difficulty defining and explaining what exactly Long COVID is, and what it could mean for future health for many people.

23 April 2022

General interest | Top charts

Top Charts 22-04: Longevity pessimism

In this edition of Top Charts, Erik Pickett presents a chart from our recent Longevity, lifestyle and retirement perception survey, 2022 showing the level of longevity pessimism in Canada, the UK and US.

22 April 2022

Research & technical | Research & technical notes

2021 US VitaCurves v2 technical papers

Technical papers on modeling techniques and underlying data to accompany the release of version 2 of our 2021 US VitaCurves model. This new release introduces pension form as a new variable into the US VitaCurves model.

24 March 2022

Opinion & experiences | Mega Trends

Club Vita's Mega Trends

We invited the multi-talented Club Vita team to have a stab at some longevity futurology.

22 March 2022

General interest | Top charts

Top Charts 22-03: 2021 excess deaths

In this edition of Top Charts, Erik Pickett, Nick Chadwick and Shantel Aris look at excess deaths in 2021 in the UK, US and Canada compared to historical levels.

15 March 2022

General interest | Pandemic updates

VitaMins: How different states have experienced COVID-19 so far (data up to Dec 31, 2021)

This is an update of our analysis of state-level excess mortality data up to the end of 2021 (data available as at March 7, 2022). COVID-19 continued to contribute to significant excess mortality through 2021, with the number of COVID-19 deaths in the US now over 950,000.

9 March 2022

Business updates | Press releases

Club Vita and Longitude Exchange, the new digital longevity marketplace platform, announce new collaboration

“Any market needs an agreed unit of measurement for it to function – and the longevity market is no different.” - Avery Michaelson, Founder of Longitude Exchange

3 March 2022

Business updates | Press releases

Club Vita restructures to satisfy growing international demand for longevity data services

Longevity data analytics company consolidates UK, US and Canadian operations in newly formed independent business.

23 February 2022

Opinion & experiences | Personal blogs

Reasons to be cheerful: progress in preventing dementia since my dad’s day

"Inspired by the loss of my much-loved dad, some reflections on what we’ve learned in a generation. I’m now approaching the age at which my dad retired, but I am planning a different 7th decade." By Douglas Anderson

7 January 2022

Opinion & experiences | Mega Trends

Mega Trend 12: Can nutritional awareness save us from the rise of fast food?

In her newest blog, Jacklyn Hopkins predicts that nutrition and diet will be recognized and embraced as one of the major drivers of future health and longevity.

7 December 2021

General interest | Top charts

Top Charts 21-11: Antibiotic use in meat production

In this edition of Top Charts, Erik Pickett looks at the levels of antibiotic use in meat production in different countries around the world.

30 November 2021

General interest | VitaMins

VitaMins Health: Antimicrobials – don’t take them for granted!

Did you know that World Antimicrobial Awareness Week takes place from Nov 18th -24th of this year? In accordance, we have our most recent release of VitaMins Health where we explore antimicrobial resistance and what it suggests for healthcare and life expectancy.

11 November 2021

Opinion & experiences | Mega Trends

Mega Trend 11+: COVID-19 is seen as a landmark moment in the evolution of life expectancy…and in the future, we end up living longer lives.

In his latest blog, James Maloney explores how the pandemic has been a watershed moment leading to an increase in life expectancy.

6 October 2021