– Medical and social care in many countries around the world is in crisis, with epidemics of obesity, type 2 diabetes and dementia being fought to no avail.
– Our current approach to health care is really care for the sick – it starts when a person goes to the hospital, emergency room or doctor’s office. Yet health begins at home – in our kitchens, workplaces, schools, roads and cities. We make hundreds of decisions every day, and most of them we make without thinking.
– Unfortunately, our food environments are designed to make it easiest to consume low-quality, high-calorie foods.
– Likewise, our built environments – our roads, buildings and cities – are designed to make it easiest to live a sedentary lifestyle (driving a car instead of biking or walking).

Are there any solutions to this?
– Building healthier communities can reduce health care costs, improve productivity and quality of life for all residents.
– This holistic focus on healthy living, in which all aspects of our daily lives have an impact on how well and how long our lives last, can be seen as a shift from a cure-to-prevention mentality.

At LAB 60+, we prevent instead of cure – US and OUR CITIES!