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A Consensus on the Brain Training Industry from the Scientific Community

October 20, 2014 Computer-based “brain-games” claim a growing share of the marketplace in aging societies. Consumers are told that playing the games will make them smarter, more alert, and able to learn faster and better. The implied and often explicit promise is that adherence to prescribed regimens of cognitive exercise will reduce and potentially reverse… Read more A Consensus on the Brain Training Industry from the Scientific Community

9/30/2014 - Why an aging population may be good for innovation

The conventional wisdom is that an aging population is a net drag on a nation’s economic competitiveness. America, these naysayers point out, is almost ready to fall off a demographic cliff once the aging Baby Boomers start retiring. But in a paper published by the journal PLOS ONE, a group of international researchers at the… Read more 9/30/2014 - Why an aging population may be good for innovation

Press Release: President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition Announces Agreement to Work with Stanford Center on Longevity to Improve the Fitness of People at All Ages

The following is an official press release from the U.S. President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. Washington, D.C. – The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition has reached agreement on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Stanford Center on Longevity (SCL) to work together to “identify strategies to advance awareness and promotion… Read more Press Release: President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition Announces Agreement to Work with Stanford Center on Longevity to Improve the Fitness of People at All Ages

9/17/2014 - What Happens When We All Live to 100?

If life-expectancy trends continue, that future may be near, transforming society in surprising and far-reaching ways. Read the full article at The Atlantic.

9/12/2014 - Top retirement financial concern: Health care bills (USA Today)

People over 50 say their top retirement financial worry is health care costs, a survey, out Friday, shows. Read the full article at USA Today.

9/15/2014 - Hedge funder offers $1 million to cure...aging?

Fei-Fei Li

Associate Professor, Computer Science; Director, Vision Lab Research interests: Vision, particularly high-level visual recognition; the interaction of attention and natural scene and object recognition, and decoding the human brain fMRI activities; computer vision image and video classification, retrieval, and understanding Email: feifeili@stanford.edu Phone:(650) 725-4403 Address: 353 Serra Mall Room 2A-246 Stanford, California 94305 Website: https://profiles.stanford.edu/fei-fei-li

6/10/2014 - Aging at Home: Does It Have to Be an Uphill Climb?

The widespread proliferation of extended care facilities, senior communities, and the younger “active adult” subdivisions is evidence that a sizable portion of the population is demanding a residential typology that scarcely existed 50 years ago, when most people were only expected to live a half dozen years after retirement. But how do we respond to… Read more 6/10/2014 - Aging at Home: Does It Have to Be an Uphill Climb?

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5/16/2014 - Moshe Milevsky on Tontines (Wade Pfau's Retirement Researcher Blog)

I’m writing from a great conference at the Stanford Center on Longevity put together by Steve Vernon and William Sharpe. As always, Moshe Milevsky provided a great and thought provoking presentation. It’s about tontines and their similarities and differences with traditional income annuities (single-premium immediate annuities). I must add that this is my interpretation of… Read more 5/16/2014 - Moshe Milevsky on Tontines (Wade Pfau's Retirement Researcher Blog)