Center on Longevity in the News

12/3/2015 - Forget Old Age, It’s Time to Live Long and (Really) Prosper
12/3/2015 - When It Pays to File Early for Social Security
11/20/2015 - What Colleges Can Do for Americans at Midlife
10/28/2015 - The Most Influential People In Aging
10/26/2015 - A ‘Gener-ager’s’ Perspective on Aging’s Broken Record
10/8/2015 - Second cohort of Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute Fellows named
9/21/2015 - Stanford longevity design winner brings dementia place setting into production
9/16/2015 - Is it time to abolish mandatory retirement?
9/11/2015 - Charting new intellectual, personal pathways at Stanford
9/3/2015 - Tableware designed for Alzheimer's patients
8/27/2015 - New spoons and plates make it easier for people with Alzheimer's to eat
8/21/2015 - This tableware is specifically made for people with Alzheimer's
8/18/2015 - Six things to know about successful aging
8/18/2015 - How Living to 100 Changes Our Education, Work and Retirement
8/11/2015 - Does Anyone Care if “Brain Games” Actually Work?
7/14/2015 - Video: 2015 White House Conference on Aging
7/12/2015 - Aging population could drive Obama's climate change policies
6/19/2015 - Why Should We Look Forward To Getting Older?
6/10/2015 - Why Longevity Isn't Just A Numbers Game
5/26/2015 - For big data to help patients, sharing health information is key, experts say
5/20/2015 - A promising trend in taking Social Security benefits
5/27/2015 - From Success to Significance: A Legacy of Purpose for Longer Lives
4/16/20915 - Student Inventors Tackle Elder Mobility Hurdles
4/3/2015 - Over 50 and Back in College, Preparing for a New Career
4/3/2015 - 7 pillars to successful aging
3/23/2015 - The Scale of Financial Abuse of Seniors Will Shock You
3/19/2015 - Working in retirement: Fantasy or reality?
Stanford launches smartphone app to study heart health
3/5/2015 - How to improve dying in America
2/17/2015 - How you might beat the annuity actuaries
2/17/2015 - These scammers are targeting your elderly parents
2/12/2015 - The New Age of Much Older Age
2/11/2015 - Six Reasons to Rethink Aging and Retirement
2/9/2015 - Distinguished Careers Institute helps leading professionals transition to next career
1/29/2015 - Why Elite Colleges Are Targeting Baby Boomers for New Career Programs
1/29/2015 - Have We Grossly Underestimated The Extent Of Financial Elder Abuse?
1/21/2015 - Aging research: Blood to blood
12/17/2014 - Will retirement pay you a ‘happiness bonus’?
12/15/2014 - The Myth of the Brain Game
12/8/2014 - Can you improve brain health? Scientists weigh in
12/2/2014 - Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter
11/30/2014 - Why Everything You Think About Aging May Be Wrong
11/17/2014 - The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis
11/3/2014 - Don’t let your parents make these social media mistakes
10/25/2014 - No Proof That 'Brain Training' Games Work, Some Experts Say
10/23/2014 - Can Video Games Fend Off Mental Decline?
10/22/2014 - Neuroscientists speak out against brain game hype
10/22/2014 - Center on Longevity hosts design challenge focusing on elderly mobility
10/22/2014 - Brain-Training Companies Get Advice From Some Academics, Criticism From Others
10/22/2014 - Seeing More Gray in the College Classroom
10/20/2014 - Stanford brain experts, others, say brain game benefits are exaggerated
10/20/2014 - Scientific evidence does not support the brain game claims, Stanford scholars say
10/16/2014 - Stanford selects first cohort of Distinguished Careers Institute fellows
10/14/2014 - How to Use Early Retirement as a Transition
10/12/2014 - The Case for Quitting Your Job
9/23/2014 - Exercise and your brain
9/22/2014 - The missing link in most retirement plans
9/19/2014 - What's the most important ingredient for a happy retirement?
9/17/2014 - Panel Urges Overhauling Health Care at End of Life
9/12/2014 - Tougher Than They Look
9/3/2014 - Is Aging In Place A Pipe Dream?
8/24/2014 - What You Should Know About The 50+ Job Market
7/22/2014 - Shifting generations may explain slow wage growth
7/21/2014 - Yellen Wage Gauges Blurred by Boomer-Millennial Shift
7/18/2014 - Learning to Make Work More Like Summer Camp
6/30/2014 - What It Means to Live a Good Life
6/28/2014 - Book Review: 'The Upside of Aging'
6/20/2014 - Aging isn’t the challenge; building an equitable society is
6/19/2014 - Boomers: Prepare for Your Second Act
5/27/2014 - Living to 100?
5/23/2014 - Stanford Is Looking For a Few Good Midlifers
5/19/2014 - 'Gray Divorce' and Other Demographic Trends
5/16/2014 - Why Hillary Clinton Isn’t Too Old for 2016
5/4/2014 - Young Blood May Hold Key to Reversing Aging
4/25/2014 - Young Prizewinners Help People With Dementia
4/14/2014 - Center on Longevity competition challenges students to design products for seniors
4/2/2014 - Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute to offer transformative experience
3/28/2014 - Finances and the Aging Brain
3/20/2014 - Designing a better way to cope with Alzheimer’s
3/12/2014 - The Science of Older and Wiser
2/5/2014 - Let's redefine what retirement means
1/27/2014 - The Older Mind May Just Be a Fuller Mind
1/23/2014 - Students Devise Products for Adults With Dementia
12/20/2013 - Can memory video games deliver on brain-boosting claims?
12/20/2013 - Service helps generate retirement income, avoid tax penalty
12/16/2013 - Stanford study urges more accurate estimates of financial fraud
12/3/2013 - Postmenopausal estrogen decline largely unrelated to changes in cognition, mood
11/26/2013 - Let’s Operate 401(k) Plans as True Retirement Plans
11/25/2013 - Why Are Seniors The Fastest-Growing Demographic On Social Media?
10/31/2013 - Why You Want to Hire Older Workers
10/3/2013 - $17 million in NIH support earned by eight researchers
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
9/19/2013 - Retirees Are Optimistic (or Delusional) About Leaving Inheritances
9/4/2013 - Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: A Glass-Half-Full Frame of Mind
8/23/2013 - The best place for you to retire
8/20/2013 - Retirement ticker tracks federal loss of institutional knowledge
8/15/2013 - 10 Ways We Get Smarter As We Age
7/25/2013 - Planning for a generation that will live past 100
7/23/2013 - Experts warn of retirement crisis
7/16/2013 - Elder Abuse and Technology
6/27/2013 - Scientists discern signatures of old versus young stem cells
6/10/2013 - A free online retirement planning guide
5/29/2013 - Japan’s longevity secret: Social ties
5/22/2013 - The Experts: The Best Books for Retirees
5/16/2013 - Tips for college grads: How to retire rich
5/13/2013 - Med School study develops models to further muscular dystrophy research
5/13/2013 - How An Adviser’s Personal Finances Can Trip Him Up
4/29/2013 - Why Older Minds Make Better Decisions
4/22/2013 - Researchers: Standing at your desk could have health benefits
4/12/2013 - Video: Happiness Experts Provide Advice on Living to 100
3/14/2013 - Living Longer Than Ever: Is That a Good Thing?
3/6/2013 - A Word To The Wise
2/18/2013 - Dream big, act now: Six secrets of retirement
12/6/2012 - Center on Longevity Director Laura Carstensen Makes AARP's "The Influentials: 50 Over 50" List
7/13/2012 - Friends of a Certain Age
6/25/2012 - Unafraid of Aging
6/4/2012 - It's time to rethink retirement
4/10/2012 - Why Learning Leads to Happiness
3/20/2012 - Aging Myths: 5 Big Misconceptions About Growing Older
3/19/2012 - It's Enough To Make A Unicorn Blush: Our Problem With Talking About Sex
3/8/2012 - Aging And Happiness: Why People May Be Happier As They Age
2/17/2012 - Look for new roles for older citizens in an aging America, says Stanford's Laura Carstensen
1/29/2012 - It’s Not Me, It’s You
1/1/2012 - The Resolution of a Lifetime
11/29/2011 - Working Into Your 70s: A Smart Retirement Move
9/29/2011 - Fixing the Third Rail
12/1/09 - Loneliness Is Contagious: 4 Ways to Stay Connected as You Age
8/6/09 - Mental health, happiness improve with age, studies say

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