{"id":22691,"date":"2024-04-21T02:44:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T21:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22691"},"modified":"2025-04-06T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:54:13","slug":"longevity-india-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/longevity-india-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Longevity India Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Longevity India Initiative<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a project focused on efforts to extend human <strong>&#8216;health span&#8217; and tackle ageing-related challenges.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The initiative has also started a large-scale clinical study that will involve researchers from multiple IISc departments, clinicians, industry, philanthropists and civil society.<\/li>\n<li>This initiative seeks to enhance the understanding of ageing through both fundamental and applied research, and to develop solutions that can <strong>improve quality of life.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will leverage advanced research to develop interventions that can help manage age-related diseases more effectively, with an emphasis on promoting healthy ageing across India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funding:<\/strong> The initiative has received initial grant funding support from Prashanth Prakash, Founding Partner, Accel India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>India&#8217;s elderly population projected to surge to 347 million by 2050, it is imperative that there is a need to leverage technology to provide accessible geriatric healthcare, nurture the silver economy and invest in digital systems that support ageing populations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Demographic dividend?<\/h3>\n<p>It refers to a period in a country&#8217;s demographic transition when the proportion of the working-age population (typically ages 15 to 64) is larger than the dependent population (young children and elderly).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/content\/press-releases-ani\/iisc-launches-longevity-india-initiative-to-pioneer-ageing-research-in-india-124041900747_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IISc Launches &#8216;Longevity India Initiative&#8217; to Pioneer Ageing Research in India<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longevity India Initiative is a project focused on efforts to extend human &#8216;healthspan&#8217; and tackle ageing-related challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}