Distinguished Lecture Series: Marc Freedman
Marc Freedman, Founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, and author of a new book called The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, will present the Center’s spring 2011 lecture on May 24. In The Big Shift, Freedman bemoans the fact that the discussion about longer lives in America has been entirely about the staggering economic costs of a dramatically aging society when, in reality, most of the nation’s 78 million boomers are not getting old — at least not yet.
 
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Join Stanford Students in On-Line Discussions on Longevity
What do young people have to say about issues around longevity? The Center on Longevity engages Stanford students in explorations of longevity-related topics. Through blogs on the Center website, Stanford students share their insights, thoughts, questions and research.
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Pace of Aging will Accelerate — Everywhere
Adele Hayutin, Senior Research Scholar and Director of the Global Aging Program, recently spoke at the Future of Aging Forum at the annual meeting of the American Society on Aging. She emphasized that the speed of population aging is accelerating and that there will be much more diversity in the patterns of population aging. Here are highlights from her talk.
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