Healthspan Hits Home: Global Wellness Summit Names “Longevity Residences” a Top 2026 Trend

Systems designed to support vitality over decades embed health into the architecture of daily living

Tri Vananda in Thailand blends medical longevity science with biophilic design and multigenerational living.

According to the Global Wellness Summit report, Future of Wellness 2026 Trends, longevity is moving out of the clinic and into the place that shapes our health more than any other: where we live. A new category of wellness real estate—"longevity residences”—is emerging, reframing homes and communities as active participants in extending healthspan. These purposeful developments hold the promise of integrating preventive medicine, advanced diagnostics, AI-driven personalization, and health-optimized design directly into our daily lives.

This shift reflects the realization that while a week at a high-end health clinic can catalyze change, lasting health is built—or eroded—by our everyday environment. Circadian disruption, chronic stress, sedentary design, social isolation, and friction around proactive care quietly accumulate over time. Longevity residences aim to reverse that equation by embedding health into the place we spend the majority of time—our homes.  

Jane Kitchen, the report’s author, distinguishes longevity residences from traditional wellness real estate by their medical orientation. Unlike wellness-focused developments, longevity residences integrate clinical care, diagnostics, and preventive health strategies directly into the residential experience.

“This trend signals a major shift in how—and where—longevity is delivered, as real estate becomes an active participant in extending healthy life rather than a passive backdrop. Unlike traditional wellness real estate, these residences go deeper tracking biomarkers, personalizing care over decades, and removing friction from proactive health behaviors.”

As stated at the 2025 Global Wellness Summit in Dubai, “longevity lives at the intersection of the wellness economy, the health and medical sector, and the biotech sector.” It is logical that longevity residences would as well, as a subset of projects underneath the large and fast-growing wellness real estate umbrella.

Around the world, this model is taking shape in different forms:

• The Estate, the brainchild of luxury hotelier Sam Nazarian and motivational guru Tony Robbins, is building a global network of residences where advanced diagnostics, concierge medicine, circadian lighting, and personalized protocols function as a continuous longevity ecosystem.  Hotel openings are planned in St. Kitts; Miami; the United Kingdom; Trento, Italy; Montreux, Switzerland; and in the Gulf region. 

• Australia’s Elysium Fields plans to pair luxury living with on-site MRIs, brain scans, and anti-aging clinics. “A world where health and wellness reign supreme, and a community has everything it needs to live your ultimate life.”

• Velvaere, a 60-acre, luxury "intentional wellness" residential community in Park City, Utah, features homes designed with principles supported by Deepak Chopra, will integrate Fountain Life’s early-detection diagnostics into a ski-in, ski-out community.

• Tri Vananda in Phuket, Thailand blends medical longevity science with biophilic design and multigenerational living. Residents can take advantage of functional and integrative medicine services, advanced diagnostics, physiotherapy, cognitive health programs, and integrated wellness programs at the Health Resort by Clinique La Prairie in Southeast Asia, slated to open this year.

The report suggests that Longevity Residences will foster environments that support healthy behaviors. Yet rather than emphasizing the foundational practices proven to extend healthspan—nutritious eating, regular movement, restorative sleep, stress management, and meaningful social connection—the emerging model appears far more high-tech than high-touch. These report references advanced diagnostics, continuous biometric monitoring, and AI-driven personalization, positioning longevity as something to be measured, optimized, and managed over time. In doing so, they aim to transform longevity from an abstract aspiration into a quantifiable, supported lifestyle.

Longevity Residences will cater to those at the top of the socioeconomic ladder, seeking to narrow the gap between how long we live and how well we live. In his new paradigm, luxury is no longer about excess—it is about access: access to early detection, personalized interventions, and proactive care.