healthspan
English
Etymology
health + span
Noun
healthspan (plural healthspans)
- The length of time in one's life where one is in optimal health.
- 1995, Kay A. Van Norman, Exercise Programming for Older Adults, Human Kinetics (1995), →ISBN, page 3:
- Improving the healthspan of older adults could dramatically lessen the impact of an aging population on the health care industry.
- 1995, Kay A. Van Norman, Exercise Programming for Older Adults, Human Kinetics (1995), →ISBN, page 3:
Quotations
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:healthspan.
Alternative forms
- health span