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Your Life, Starting Now
by admin on April 30, 2012 9:17 am
As part of the Center's Spring 2012 Student Practicum, Emma Makoba will explore ways to combat chronic disease in developing countries, and Tess Rothstein examines alternatives to the traditional life course.
4/25/2012 - Aging with Pride: The Call for Boomer Consciousness
by admin on April 25, 2012 1:12 pm
With a recent issue of AARP The Magazine featuring Diane Keaton over the headline “How She Stays Forever Young,” the message surrounding aging is emblazoned on our consciousness: Young is good, old is bad. Read the full article at Huffington Post.
4/24/2012 - Ask Stanford Med: Answers to your questions on health-care innovation
by admin on April 25, 2012 1:09 pm
Center on Longevity faculty affiliate Stefanos Zenios answers questions on healthcare innovation. Read more at Scope
4/17/2012 - Should We Eat Less Meat? None at All?
by admin on April 25, 2012 1:05 pm
“The Myth of Sustainable Meat,” by James E. McWilliams (Op-Ed, April 13), dismisses sustainable farming by saying it shares many of the problems of the industrial food chain. Then Mr. McWilliams offers a fallacious choice: either eat conventional meat with its environmental, health and ethical downsides, or give up meat entirely. Read the full article… Read more 4/17/2012 - Should We Eat Less Meat? None at All?
4/24/2012 - Taking On Dementia With the Experiences of Normal Life
by admin on April 25, 2012 12:44 pm
In a report released this month, the World Health Organization forecast that the number of people suffering from dementia would double by 2030, to more than 65 million, and triple by 2050, as the world’s population ages. The increase comes as governments everywhere struggle to contain the runaway costs of health care. Read the full… Read more 4/24/2012 - Taking On Dementia With the Experiences of Normal Life
4/23/2012 - Preparing For A Future That Includes Aging Parents
by admin on April 23, 2012 1:00 pm
Like millions of other middle-aged Americans, she [Natasha Shamone-Gilmore] had long regarded her parents as robust adults, more than capable of managing their own affairs. “My mom was a very active woman; my dad … was a Safeway employee for 40-something years,” she said. But time does what it does, and today, her father needs… Read more 4/23/2012 - Preparing For A Future That Includes Aging Parents
4/20/2012 - Prime Targets for Scam Artists
by admin on April 23, 2012 10:29 am
Here’s a question you’d think would be simple to answer: How many older Americans fall prey to frauds and scams each year? We’re talking about fake lotteries (“You’ve just won $10,000 in the Spanish lottery! To collect your winnings, send $29.95 to….”) and about phony investment schemes (oil drilling, gold mining, gold coins and other… Read more 4/20/2012 - Prime Targets for Scam Artists
4/19/2012 - ‘Elderly’ No More
by admin on April 20, 2012 11:23 am
“Have you thought about changing the name of that blog you’re writing for?” Ann Fishman asked. “The boomers aren’t going to like it. They don’t ever want to get old.” I’d called Ms. Fishman, president of Generational Targeted Marketing, a market research firm in New York, with a simple question. What language should we use… Read more 4/19/2012 - ‘Elderly’ No More
4/18/2012 - Mind the Baby Gap
by admin on April 19, 2012 9:41 am
Although overpopulation plagues much of the developing world, many developed societies are now suffering from the opposite problem: birthrates so low that each generation is smaller than the previous one. Much of southern and eastern Europe, as well as Austria, Germany, Russia and the developed nations of Southeast Asia, have alarmingly low fertility rates, with… Read more 4/18/2012 - Mind the Baby Gap
4/18/2012 - Where the Oldest Die Now
by admin on April 18, 2012 10:49 am
In a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency’s statisticians looked at the deaths of people over 85 — 700,000 of them in 2007 — and where they occurred, and pointed out some encouraging trends. The proportion of those very old people who died as hospital patients dropped to 29… Read more 4/18/2012 - Where the Oldest Die Now
