Executive Director's Note

Dear Readers,

It has been a busy few months! In May, we held a successful Global Conference in Los Angeles featuring several sessions focused on aging. We released policy recommendations to advance tech-enabled care, made presentations about the future of long-term care and retirement security, and participated in other thought leadership activities to advance our key programs: Healthy Longevity, Financial Security, and Improving Dementia Care. We are grateful for the continuing support and collaboration of so many individuals and organizations who share our aspirations for a better future.

Nora Super, Executive Director, Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging 

In this Edition

What to Read, Watch, and Share from CFA
25th Global Conference Highlights
We Are Hiring!
Advisory Board Updates

What to Read, Watch, and Share from the Center for the Future of Aging

Extending Healthy Longevity

We develop evidence-based solutions and advance multisectoral strategies to further prevention, wellness, and scientific progress for longer and healthier lives.

• On April 28, we released a report titled “Advancing Tech-Enabled Health and Home Care,” which presents consensus-built, actionable recommendations to integrate health and home care through technology, co-authored by Director Lauren Dunning and Associate Director Caroline Servat.

• Nora Super joined the Charity Charge Show and the Glowing Older podcast to talk about support for our aging population, being an effective leader through vulnerability, and creating policies aligned with the needs of those with lived experiences.

Building Financial Security

We drive change in policies and practices to enable evolving and dynamic work lives, ensure financially secure retirements, and address the intergenerational impacts of our shifting demographics.

• On behalf of the Retirement Income Institute, Nora teamed up with Jeanne De Cervens, director of the AgingWell Hub at Georgetown University, to develop and publish new solutions to reduce the long-term care risk to retirement security. Nora presented this paper during the 2022 Future of Protected Income Summit, held in Washington, DC, on May 13.

• Nora discussed health-care and long-term care costs on a new financial podcast, “Everyday Wealth,” with Soledad O’Brien and Jean Chatzky.

• In collaboration with the Center for Financial Markets, we launched a new program focused on securing the future of retirement.

Improving Dementia Care

We advance timely detection, access to treatment and coordinated care, and health equity for people at risk for and living with dementia and their caregivers.

• Diane Ty, director of the Alliance to Improve Dementia Care, and Nora wrote an article at the request of the Gerontological Society of America that focuses on our multisectoral approach to galvanize stakeholders toward our shared goal: a better quality of life for people with dementia and their caregivers.

• We released a “Roadmap for Investment in Dementia Care” in partnership with the UK-based philanthropy Alzheimer’s Society and the Center for Strategic Philanthropy, assessing the needs and gaps in dementia care and research and identifying the most promising opportunities to address them.

• During Global Conference, we hosted a private roundtable of leaders from government, philanthropy, and health- and long-term care to lay the groundwork to scale comprehensive dementia-care models in California.

25th Global Conference Highlights

The Center for the Future of Aging hosted six public panels on various topics, including health-care delivery reform, caregiving, retirement, technology-enabled care, transcending generational divides, and music and its impact on the brain. Miss a session? Check out our recap and links to the recordings below.

Tipping Point for US Health-Care System Transformation

Liz Fowler, Director, CMS Innovation Center, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

The Medicare program, under new leadership, declared that all Medicare enrollees will be in a value-based care relationship with accountability for quality and total cost of care by 2030. Experts discussed their work across the US health system to drive high-quality, person-centered care.

Caregiving in America: Time for Change

From Left: Linda Sánchez, US Representative, California; Ai-jen Poo, President, National Domestic Workers Alliance; Lauren Miller Rogen, Co-Founder, HFC; Jeff Huber, CEO, Home Instead, Inc.; Amy Fehir, Senior Director, Business and Program Development, Milken Institute.

This panel of experts packed the hour with inspiration and actions that individuals, employers, and policymakers can take today to increase dignity and support for professional and family caregivers of older adults.

Great Expectations: Retirement in the New Old Age

Lorna Sabbia, Managing Director, Head of Retirement and Personal Wealth Solutions, Bank of America.

This panel discussed the realities of retirement today and how to build financially secure retirements for older adults and the generations to come.

The 21st Century Home: Health Hub of the Future

Micky Tripathi, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, US Department of Health and Human Services.

National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Micky Tripathi noted, “Health care has finally discovered the internet. And it’s huge.” This panel of health-care technology experts discussed the latest in this quickly changing field.

Talking About My Generation: Transcending Age-Based Divide

From left: Fernando Torres-Gil, Director, UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging; Theodora Lau, Founder, Unconventional Ventures; Gadi Schwartz, Correspondent, NBC News and Host of “The Overview” on Peacock and “Stay Tuned” on Snapchat; Wes Moore, former CEO, Robin Hood Foundation and Author, “Five Days”; Autumn Peltier, Chief Water Commissioner, The Anishinabek Nation; John Della Volpe, Director of Polling, Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics.

Positive change comes from strong intergenerational collaboration. Panelists spanning five generations discussed the best ways to solve the most pressing societal issues, including climate change and racism.

Perfect Harmony: Music and Its Impact on the Brain

Clockwise from left: Renée Fleming, Special Projects Advisor, LA Opera and Artistic Advisor, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Charles Limb, Professor and Chief of Otology, Neurotology, and Skull Base Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, UC San Francisco Medical Center; Susan Magsamen, Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Rossato-Bennett, Writer, Director, and Producer, "Alive Inside"; Moderator Richard Lui, Anchor and Journalist, MSNBC and NBC News.

Music is innate to all cultures. Does it help us survive as a species? What can it do to improve care for people living with dementia? An opera singer, a doctor, a researcher, and a film director discussed how we could harness the power of music to keep our brains engaged throughout our lives.

We Are Hiring!

Apply to Join the Center for the Future of Aging (CFA) as an Associate Director Based in California.

Advisory Board Member Quarterly Updates

Collaborating to Build a Better Future for All Ages

• AARP launched its updated Livability Index that scores every neighborhood and community in the United States for the services and amenities that affect people’s lives the most as they age.

• The Annenberg Foundation’s recently opened “GenSpace” in Los Angeles offers a fitness room, game room, tech bar, art room, and space for horticultural therapy, focusing on older adults.

• BrightFocus Foundation continued their "Brain Info Live"℠ Alzheimer’s education campaign by teaming up with local community leaders and partners in Boston.

• Laura Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, spoke at the LeadingAge Leadership summit about preparing for longer lives and aging demographics.

• Catherine Collinson, CEO and president of Transamerica Institute, wrote about “The Saver’s Credit: A Tax Credit to Promote Retirement Security” in Bloomberg Tax.

• Joseph Coughlin, director of the MIT AgeLab, contributed to Forbes with articles focused on hidden retirement costs and the impact of losing places that connect us with other people.

• Ric Edelman published a new book to guide investment in cryptocurrency, The Truth About Crypto.

• Terry Fulmer, president of the John A. Hartford Foundation, amplifyied the calls of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the Biden Administration to reform the nursing home system in the US.

• Marc Freedman, CEO of encore.org, explored how age groups can work together during a discussion hosted by Convergence, Center for Policy Resolution.

• Linda Fried, dean of the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, was awarded the Association of American Physicians’ 2022 George M. Kober Medal in recognition of her groundbreaking contributions to the science of healthy aging.

• Lynn Goldman, dean of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, advocated for an early warning system to prevent the next COVID surge in The Hill.

• Harvard’s Joint Center on Housing recently launched the Housing an Aging Society Program, led by Jennifer Molinsky, that will focus on the diverse needs of US households headed by someone older than 65.

• Jeff Huber, CEO of Home Instead, outlined his vision for the new Honor Expert online tool launched in April.

• Juvenescence, founded by Jim Mellon, announced a new venture with the formation of a company called Selah Therapeutics Limited. The company will focus on developing therapies for chronic diseases of aging.

• Surya Kolluri, managing director at Bank of America, spoke at the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2022 about new technologies that spur behavioral change and drive lifelong healthy aging.

• Bob Kramer, the founder of Nexus Insights, discussed “The Forgotten Middle” in the senior housing market on an episode of Foresight TV.

• Becca Levy, a professor at Yale University, is the author of a new book, Breaking the Age Code: How Your Age Beliefs Determine How Long and Well You Live. She writes that we all have an “extraordinary opportunity to rethink what it means to grow old.”

• “Longevity and the New Journey of Retirement,” a new study from Age Wave and Edward Jones, found that nearly 70 percent of Americans want to live to age 100, with 29 years as the “ideal length” for retirement.

• Andrew Scott, the founder of the Longevity Forum, wrote in Lancet about a new stage for humanity that he coins as the “Longevity Society.”

• Rodney Slater, a partner at Squire Patton-Boggs and former US Secretary of Transportation, reflected on the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and joined a new task force that will come up with recommendations for DC’s spending of federal infrastructure money.

• Tivity Health, led by Richard Ashworth, is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its community fitness program, Silver Sneakers, with a series of virtual and in-person events throughout 2022.

• WorkingNation, founded by Art Bilger, hosted its “Overheard” interview series at the 2022 Milken Institute Global Conference. Watch the series to hear leaders’ perspectives on the future of work.