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Jan. 12 - Growing Up and Old in the Same Little Neighborhood - the New York Times

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Decision-Making and Aging

Stanford PhD Greg Samanez-Larkin awarded 2010 Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) Distinguished Dissertation Award for Social Sciences Greg Samanez-Larkin has been awarded the 2010 Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) Distinguished Dissertation Award for Social Sciences for his dissertation “Incentive Processing in the Aging Brain: Individual Differences in Value-Based Learning and Decision Making Across the Adult… Read more Decision-Making and Aging

Jan. 12 - Teens Take Elders to Tech Boot Camp - the Wall Street Journal

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A new research center at Stanford will address mobility disorders with powerful 3-D simulations of a patient's movements

Bioengineering Professor Scott Delp is the director of a new national center for rehabilitation research at Stanford. The center will focus on using powerful software that simulates human movement to investigate movement disorders and identify the best treatments for patients.  Read more

Nov. 22 - "The Empty Chair in the Dining Room" - The New York Times

Older and Happier

As people age, they're more emotionally balanced and better able to solve highly emotional problems, says psychology professor and Center on Longevity director Laura Carstensen.

Longevity & the boomers

NBC News' Tom Brokaw moderated a Stanford Roundtable on aging, longevity and the boomers. Panelists were Center Director Laura Carstensen, President John Hennessey, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, AARP CEO Barry Rand, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Professor Robert Sapolsky.

A Long Bright Future

In a Stanford School of Medicine podcast, Longevity Center director Laura Carstensen discusses aging, planning for your future and taking advantage of ways to improve quality of life at all ages.

New Realities of an Older America

The challenges of baby boomers reaching old age, combined with a growing, more diverse population, will drive major changes, challenges and decisions in U.S. families, workplaces and communities, according to a new report from the Stanford Center on Longevity.

Inspiring People to Think Differently About Aging

The challenges and opportunities of an older America are coming to bear quickly. Uncommon Approaches for Unprecedented Challenges, our new annual report, describes the Center on Longevity’s work convening experts and launching research to prepare the young and old for an increasingly aging society.