Dr. Mary Claire Haver

I can't think of a single one in our clinic who has walked in the door and said, I want to live as long as possible.

I never want to die.

I want dying to be optional.

That does not come out of their mouths.

Here's what they say to me.

I wanna be a benefactor and not a burden.

I wanna be with my loved ones for as long as possible.

I want to enjoy those years.

Because guess what?

Women win the longevity race doing nothing.

Right now, we live six-ish years longer than our male counterparts.

Here's the problem.

We are not as healthy.

We are spending more of that life plagued with chronic conditions.

We're twice as likely to require long-term nursing home admissions.

We are twice as likely to lose our independence because we become so frail we can't take care of ourselves.

Or women are three times more likely to develop Alzheimer's and dementia than their male counterparts.

These diseases happen to men.

A woman can expect to have an... 50% of us will have an osteoporotic fracture before we die.

50%, okay?