Category: Center

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

by on September 20, 2013 10:23 pm
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
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9/20/2013 - Stanford Center on Longevity competition challenges students to design products to help older adults

by on September 20, 2013 2:21 pm
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.
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9/19/2013 - Retirees Are Optimistic (or Delusional) About Leaving Inheritances

by on September 19, 2013 10:25 pm
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
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9/4/2013 - Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: A Glass-Half-Full Frame of Mind

by on September 4, 2013 10:32 pm
With age, explains Laura Carstensen, founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, we “are more likely to experience mixed emotions, happiness and a touch of sadness at the same time. Having mixed emotions helps to regulate emotional states better than extreme emotions.” Read the full article at AARP.
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8/23/2013 - The best place for you to retire

by on August 23, 2013 5:09 pm
Is it worth your time thinking about where you’ll live in retirement? You betcha! Housing is the biggest item in most retirees’ budgets, and where you live has a tremendous influence on your enjoyment of life. If you’re in research mode, there’s no lack of information and opinions on the best places to retire. Read… Read more 8/23/2013 - The best place for you to retire
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8/20/2013 - Retirement ticker tracks federal loss of institutional knowledge

by on August 20, 2013 5:14 pm
Forty-six days of experience every second. That’s how much institutional knowledge disappears from the government every second because of federal-worker retirements, according to a new ticker from the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. The retirement wave is not unique to the federal government. The number of Americans aged 65 years or older will… Read more 8/20/2013 - Retirement ticker tracks federal loss of institutional knowledge
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8/15/2013 - 10 Ways We Get Smarter As We Age

by on August 15, 2013 4:34 pm
As we age, the brain‘s processing speed begins to slow, and memory may sometimes slip. But there are other ways that our mental powers grow as we get older. In the current issue of the journal Psychological Science, researchers report that older people (over 65) showed less variability in their cognitive performance across 100 days of testing than did… Read more 8/15/2013 - 10 Ways We Get Smarter As We Age

7/25/2013 - Planning for a generation that will live past 100

by on July 25, 2013 3:31 pm
Several recent surveys by AARP have found only slightly more than half of Americans ages 45 and older are confident they have saved enough to cover medical and living expenses in retirement. Reuters spoke with Laura Carstensen, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity about how to get more… Read more 7/25/2013 - Planning for a generation that will live past 100
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7/23/2013 - Experts warn of retirement crisis

by on July 23, 2013 4:17 pm
American workers who are thinking about retiring today face much more responsibility and risk for generating retirement income from their savings compared to what their parents experienced. Read the full article at CBS Money Watch.
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7/16/2013 - Elder Abuse and Technology

by on July 16, 2013 3:20 pm
The loss from and the impact of financial elder abuse are increasing. According to a MetLife Mature Institute report, the estimated loss due to elder financial abuse in 2011 was $2.9 billion, a 12 percent increase from 2008. Martha Deevy, director of the Financial Security Division at Stanford’s Center on Longevity agrees. “15 years ago,… Read more 7/16/2013 - Elder Abuse and Technology