{"id":"GSX:POP-007:A01","local_id":"A01","name":"Extended healthy adulthood","statement":"The scenario asks what changes if people routinely live to 100 or 120 with a substantial extension of healthy adult life. Current South African life expectancy is far shorter. This is not a projection that the average person will soon live to 120.","value":"120","unit":"years, scenario lifespan","type":"model assumption","provenance":"Manuscript scenario design","evidence_strength":"illustrative","sensitivity":"high","alternatives":["Death postponed more than illness","A conventional life to a shorter age"],"href":"https://greyscienx.com/research/population-futures/the-hundred-year-life/assumptions/A01"}