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Understanding California's Demographic Shifts: Volume 4

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Understanding California's Demographic Shifts: Volume 3

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Understanding California's Demographic Shifts: Volume 2

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Understanding California's Demographic Shifts: Volume 1

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11/26/2011 - The Death of the Fringe Suburb

Drive through any number of outer-ring suburbs in America, and you’ll see boarded-up and vacant strip malls, surrounded by vast seas of empty parking spaces. These forlorn monuments to the real estate crash are not going to come back to life, even when the economy recovers. And that’s because the demand for the housing that… Read more 11/26/2011 - The Death of the Fringe Suburb

Understanding California's Demographic Shifts

Under the direction of Senior Research Scholar Adele Hayutin, the Stanford Center on Longevity has produced a study of California’s changing demographics. The report includes demographic profiles of more than 200 communities in California, illustrating shifts in age structure and changes in ethnic and racial composition. The project was developed for the California State Library… Read more Understanding California's Demographic Shifts

11/19/2011 - Goodbye, Golden Years

Dr. B. Boomer — an unfortunate, but fictional, dentist — worked and saved for years, only to see her portfolio shrivel after a series of investments in orthodontia-related dot-coms a decade ago. She then put her money into seemingly safe financial firms, like A.I.G., and was hammered during the subsequent downturn. Her plan to retire… Read more 11/19/2011 - Goodbye, Golden Years

11/18/2011 - Older, Suburban and Struggling, ‘Near Poor’ Startle the Census

When the Census Bureau this month released a new measure of poverty, meant to better count disposable income, it began altering the portrait of national need. Perhaps the most startling differences between the old measure and the new involves data the government has not yet published, showing 51 million people with incomes less than 50… Read more 11/18/2011 - Older, Suburban and Struggling, ‘Near Poor’ Startle the Census

11/17/2011 - Census Bureau Releases Comprehensive Analysis of Fast-Growing 90-and-Older Population

The nation’s 90-and-older population nearly tripled over the past three decades, reaching 1.9 million in 2010, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau and supported by the National Institute on Aging. Over the next four decades, this population is projected to more than quadruple. Read the full article at U.S. Census… Read more 11/17/2011 - Census Bureau Releases Comprehensive Analysis of Fast-Growing 90-and-Older Population

11/16/2011 - Age differences in striatal delay sensitivity during intertemporal choice in healthy adults

Intertemporal choices are a ubiquitous class of decisions that involve selecting between outcomes available at different times in the future. In a new study led by Center on Longevity faculty affiliate Samuel McClure, researchers investigated the neural systems supporting intertemporal decisions in healthy younger and older adults. Using functional neuroimaging, they found that aging is… Read more 11/16/2011 - Age differences in striatal delay sensitivity during intertemporal choice in healthy adults