The Longevity Project
The possibility of living for ten or more decades raises a uniquely twenty-first century question: what are we going to do with our longer lives?
Life expectancy has increased at an extraordinary rate over the past 120 years, from roughly 47 years at the beginning of the 20th century in the United States to more than 78 years today. By some estimates, half of the children born today in the developed world will live for 100 years. But with the opportunity for longer life comes the challenge of optimizing our institutions, policies and investments to support a healthier and more prosperous longevity.
Our Mission: Promote Transformation in Support of Longer Life
We foster research and public conversation to build awareness of the implications of longer life, and bring together leaders from business, government and the social sector to plan for transitions in healthcare, retirement planning, caregiving and more. Together with our lead content collaborator, the Stanford Center on Longevity, and other leading universities, think tanks and media organizations, our goal is to cultivate a new awareness of the longevity challenge and support change so that people around the world can live healthy, secure and fulfilled lives.
Recent news from the Longevity Project…
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Healthy to 100: How Strong Social Ties Lead to Long Lives
Contrary to popular belief, the secret to living longer is not just about eating well, exercising, or getting regular checkups. Instead, successful aging depends on the nature of your relationships and your social connections. If you want to live a healthy and rewarding life, you need to start with social health.
In Healthy to 100, longevity expert Ken Stern takes us on a journey to some of the longest-lived countries in the world—Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Italy, and Spain—places that have achieved great advances in longevity by intentionally strengthening social connections. Science shows that physical and mental health outcomes are all improved by the intergenerational connectedness, sense of purpose, and respect enjoyed by older people in these countries.
Their example offers us all a personal and societal guide for how we can better the second half of life. Weaving in surprising, colorful stories from around the world, Stern shows that the key to healthy longevity involves a mindset shift and purposeful building of social connections. Healthy to 100 offers a hopeful, attainable, research-backed model for anyone seeking a longer and healthier life.
Season 8 of the award-winning podcast
“Century Lives”:
Century Lives: The new old
Episodes 1-3 out now!
Look around you: Our communities are filled with people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s, doing things that would have been unthinkable at their age a generation ago. By 2030, the entire Baby Boomer generation will be 65 and older. But what does it mean to be old in an era of much longer life?
Welcome to Century Lives: The New Old, from the Stanford Center on Longevity. In this season, we interview six extraordinary people who are challenging the way we think about aging.
Social connection is a lot like the weather - we all talk about it, but no one does anything about it. Our new newsletter is here to change that: to raise awareness about the importance of connection and create a space for real conversation. We hope you enjoy.
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The Longevity Book Club
Looking for the next great book on aging and longevity? Want to learn how to live a longer and healthier life? We’ve got the answers. Well not us, per se, but our fantastic lineup of authors sure do. Join us for The Longevity Book Club, featuring conversations with Dr. Marc Milstein, Margareta Magnusson, Myra Strober and Abby Davisson, with many more to come.
Next up…
Join us on November 5th @ 12 PM PT/3 PM ET for our November Longevity Book Club with Ken Stern!
