YOULLDIE
Authors: Adam Beauregard
Abstract: YOULLDIE is an open-source and data-driven app that statistically predicts life expectancy. It determines the risk of death from different causes based on inherited, environmental and lifestyle risk factors that users enter in the app (i.e., gender, race, world region, education, income, alcohol use, tobacco use, physical activity, sleep, blood pressure, body mass index, medical history and family medical history.)
Full Description: The app’s code was developed using current peer-reviewed scientific literature and public databases. If fully integrated with global mortality data, it can solve immediate problems in the healthcare, life insurance, financial planning, and wealth management industries.
Healthcare
Knowing a patient's potential life expectancy can help healthcare professionals tailor personalized interventions and preventive care. Specifically, a life expectancy prediction tool can help healthcare providers provide targeted interventions for conditions that most impact patients' life expectancies.
Moreover, a life expectancy prediction tool can optimize the implementation of public health programs. Specifically, it can improve the effectiveness of resource allocation and ensure that individuals with potentially shorter life expectancies receive appropriate care. Finally, accurate life expectancy predictions can sensibilize the population to health risks and reduce early death and associated costs. As such, a life expectancy prediction tool can improve healthcare systems' efficiency.
Life Insurance
For the life insurance industry, an accurate life expectancy prediction tool improves risk assessments and allows companies to offer fair and balanced insurance products. This confers a competitive advantage as it allows insurance products to be provided to a broader audience while reducing losses. This can translate into improving global health as more people get coverage for the treatment and care they need while reducing the burden on the payers.
Financial Planning and Wealth Management
Knowing how much time one has left is of great value for any long-term commitment. Specifically, for financial planning and wealth management, a life expectancy prediction tool can help answer the question "When do you plan to retire?" which is central in determining how much one needs to save and invest to ensure sufficient funds throughout retirement. Furthermore, for estate planning, predicting one’s life expectancy allows one to plan responsibly and ensure the well-being of loved ones. As such, a life expectancy prediction tool conveys a competitive advantage to financial planning and wealth management companies as it can serve as a crystal ball to help determine when major life milestones, such as starting a family and retiring, should occur. This allows financial planning and wealth management companies to assess their clients' financial needs more accurately and make their offers more attractive.
For more information about the YOULLDIE project, see the README on GitHub: youlldie/README.md at main · admbrgd/youlldie · GitHub
Shiny app: https://youlldie.com
Repo: GitHub - admbrgd/youlldie: A web app that statistically predicts your life expectancy based on your inherited risk factors and lifestyle choices, leveraging data from peer-reviewed literature and public databases
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