But one thing keeps showing up in the data: living longer and living well are not in sync. That means a lot of us are on track to spend close to two decades, sometimes longer, living with chronic illness, cognitive decline or lost mobility. None of these are luxuries, but they are a core foundational infrastructure of a longer healthspan, which for far too many Canadians is simply out of reach. Health research has moved beyond the question of whether we can live longer. We may discover that pursuing a longer healthspan also leads to even greater longevity, for all.