The Future of Aging

This is the first time in human history that humans have lived this long. We have made huge medical, sanitation and nutritional advances in prolonging life. We are struggling to catch up in terms of caregiving for this rapidly expanding world’s elderly population and in terms of understanding and supporting mental health and developmental tasks of this new, old age.

Ken Dychtwald

The presentation linked to below presents intriguing and informative perspectives from four of leading visionaries and futurists in the field of aging: Ken Dychtwald, President and CEO of AgeWave, Professor Ferando Torres-Gils from UCLA’s Center for Policy Research on Aging, Jo Ann Jenkins, Executive VP of AARP, and Joe Coughlin, Director of MIT’s AgeLab. Watch it if you want to know where we’re headed, what we’ll be up against and where there is hope.

The Future of Aging panel at the recent ASA Conference in San Diego.