Physician-guided tools for aging well

Start with one Age Well Score, then refine the details.

The Medicine Check is evolving from a blog into an accessible planning hub where adults can combine healthspan, medication, retirement, and care-planning signals into one practical next step.

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Age Well Score

Get a whole-person aging snapshot.

Enter the high-signal inputs from the supporting calculators. The score blends healthspan, medication safety, wealthspan readiness, and future care planning into one next step.

Healthspan habits Medication safety Wealthspan readiness Care planning

Healthspan inputs

Current age Weekly movement minutes Aim for 150 moderate minutes per week, or 75 vigorous minutes. Count vigorous minutes as about 2 moderate minutes if combining. Strength sessions per week Sleep quality Sleep quantity Memory compared with last year Mood compared with last year

Medication inputs

Medications to review ACB score, if known

Wealthspan inputs

Planned retirement age Current retirement savings Monthly retirement / HSA savings Emergency fund months High-interest debt Expected annual healthcare spending at retirement Use the healthcare estimator if unsure. If set to 0, the score uses an inflation-adjusted Medicare out-of-pocket benchmark instead of treating healthcare as free.

Planning context Health Money Both equally Long-term care plan

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Your Age Well Score will appear here. Use the form to generate a score, domain breakdown, annual healthcare spending context, and next best action.

Healthy aging

Translate core geriatric concepts - mentation, mobility, medications, and what matters - into approachable habits and discussion prompts for your care team.

Wealthy aging

Estimate the costs of longevity so your retirement plan includes healthcare spending, prevention, housing, caregiving, and peace of mind.

Accessible guidance

Get plain-language explanations that connect health choices, medication questions, and financial tradeoffs to a next step you can actually use.

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Where to go from here.

Keep the home page focused on the Age Well Score, then move into tools, articles, background, or method when you want more detail.

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Tools

Open the detailed calculator workbench for healthcare costs, retirement readiness, wealthspan, healthspan, and medication review.

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Advice Library

Browse healthspan, medication safety, retirement healthcare, wealthspan, and nutrition topic clusters.

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About

Learn about Dr. Tyson Garfield and why The Medicine Check connects healthy aging with financial wellness.

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Method

Review the framework, source monitors, and assumptions behind the calculators and Age Well Score.

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