Category: Longevity News 2013

9/22/2013 - The aging in Asia face a new decade like no other

Asia is expected to see one clear demographic trend emerge in the next decade: a widening divide between the southeast, where the working-age population is growing at a strong pace, and the northeast, where the labor force is forecast to shrink. Read the full article at CNBC.

9/20/2013 - Soliciting young minds to help older adults

The young helping the elderly is not a new practice, but designing products aimed at the aging population might be a novel idea. An article in today’s Stanford Report highlights the Stanford Center on Longevity’s Design Challenge, a contest “focused on cognitive impairments – trouble with remembering things, concentration, learning new things or making decisions,” and is aimed at… Read more 9/20/2013 - Soliciting young minds to help older adults

9/20/2013 - Stanford Center on Longevity competition challenges students to design products to help older adults

The Center on Longevity is kicking off a Design Challenge aimed at encouraging undergraduate and graduate students to find solutions that help older adults affected by cognitive impairments to live independently as long as possible. Read the full article at Stanford Report.

9/19/2013 - Retirees Are Optimistic (or Delusional) About Leaving Inheritances

For those who can’t expect hand-me-down wealth, there’s another retirement strategy, one that’s mentioned more and more these days: working longer. “Most people just don’t have the financial resources to stop working full-time in their 60s,” says actuary and consultant Steve Vernon, a research scholar at the Stanford Center on Longevity. Read the full article… Read more 9/19/2013 - Retirees Are Optimistic (or Delusional) About Leaving Inheritances

9/19/2013 - Suddenly, the Tech World Loves People Over 50

In today’s gold rush for the silver market, startups, advisers and older consumers have joined forces to help Americans age better. Read the full article at Next Avenue.

9/19/2013 - Scientists reveal how beta-amyloid may cause Alzheimer's

Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have shown how a protein fragment known as beta-amyloid, strongly implicated in Alzheimer’s disease, begins destroying synapses before it clumps into plaques that lead to nerve cell death. Read the full article at Stanford Report.

9/18/2013 - TIME Talks to Google CEO Larry Page About Its New Venture to Extend Human Life

Bold project, to be led by biotech pioneer Arthur Levinson, will tackle’s some of health care’s biggest problems Read the full article at Time.

9/18/2013 - $33 Million Grant for Effort to Prevent Late-Onset Alzheimer’s

In a significant effort to discover a treatment to prevent Alzheimer’s disease, the federal government announced on Wednesday a $33.2 million grant for a project that will test a drug on people considered at greatest risk for developing the most common form of the disease. Read the full article at The New York Times.

9/18/2013 - Ageing could weaken central banks, spur rate volatility

Not unlike the ageing public – central banks will have to work harder as their economies grey and greater interest rate volatility over time may well be the outcome. Read the full article at Reuters.  

9/18/2013 - One in 8 workers will never retire

A new global study finds nearly one in eight workers expect they will never be able to afford to retire fully. In the U.S. and U.K, the figures are even worse. Read the full article at CNN.