Future of Aging
Digital Technology Bundles: A Testing and Validation Blueprint for Fall Prevention
Digital Technology Bundles: A Testing and Validation Blueprint for Fall Prevention
The Future of Aging advances healthy longevity and financial security for all through research, convening, multisector partnerships, and the elevation of high-impact policies and practices.
Practice Areas
Brain Health
Caregiving
Financial Longevity
Healthspan
Home and Community
Future of Aging
Most Recent Content
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A Midpoint Reckoning: The United States and the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing
As leaders gather in New York for the United Nations (UN) General Assembly this September, the world is also marking the midpoint of the UN’s Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021–2030). The initiative calls on nations to work together to support...Read ArticleImage
Dawn M. Carpenter, DLS
Director, Financial LongevityDawn M. Carpenter, DLS, is the director of financial longevity at MI Health. -
Family Caregiving: Every Sector, Every Solution
“Even as a health-care professional, I experience how overwhelming the cost of care is each year. No one should have to carry that burden alone.” During a private roundtable at the 2025 Milken Institute Global Conference, Sandra Abrevaya...Read ArticleImage
Priyanka Shah
Associate Director, Future of AgingPriyanka Shah is the associate director of the Milken Institute Future of Aging, which advances healthy longevity and financial security for all through a life-course perspective on aging and longevity. -
Using Internet to Combat Social Isolation among Older Adults
In 2023, the US Surgeon General issued an advisory titled Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation, declaring loneliness and isolation a public health crisis. The advisory outlined the devastating impact of loneliness on individual and...Read Article -
Bridging the Affordable Senior Housing Gap for the ‘Forgotten Middle’: An Investment Opportunity
The UN International Day of Care and Support serves as a reminder of the contributions and burdens of both paid and unpaid care workers. As the older adult population grows, it is vital to invest in a robust care economy that promotes the...Read Article -
Financial Longevity: The Key to Dignity in Aging
The fall is a time to celebrate the invaluable contributions of older adults. As we observe the United Nations' International Day for Older Persons and Ageism Awareness Day in October, and National Family Caregivers Month in November, it's...Read ArticleImage
Dawn M. Carpenter, DLS
Director, Financial LongevityDawn M. Carpenter, DLS, is the director of financial longevity at MI Health.
Media Mentions
Longevity.Technology
Milken Institute calls for greater investment in dementia research and development to help boost global healthspan and longevity.
HR Brew
Leaders from Bank of America, the Milken Institute, and Hanover Insurance, discussed extended leave, flexible workdays, and employee resource groups.
i Advance Senior Care
A new report, “America’s Unseen Workforce: The State of Family Caregiving,” identifies a looming caregiving crisis in the United States.
Worth
The Milken Institute's Diane Ty highlights the widening gap between lifespan and healthspan, the need for policy and innovation to address the caregiving crisis, and the shift in cultural views on aging as a way to tap into the power of intergenerational mentorship.
Leaders
Advisory Board Leadership Council
Alliance to Improve Dementia Care Steering Committee
Our Team
Mike Brown
Dawn M. Carpenter, DLS
Lauren Dunning, JD
Paul Irving
Shiprah Jamshaid
Esther Krofah
Christopher Multerer
Jennifer Rossano
Priyanka Shah
Diane Ty
FAQs
The Milken Institute Future of Aging is an initiative that advances healthy longevity and financial security for all through research, convenings, multisector partnerships, and the elevation of high-impact policies and practices. It operates under Milken Institute Health and addresses the economic, social, and health-care challenges of a rapidly aging global population.
The initiative works across four practice areas: Brain Health, which focuses on dementia care and timely diagnosis; Financial Longevity, which addresses financial well-being and meaningful work lives; Healthspan, which develops solutions to extend the period of life spent in good health; and Home and Community, which promotes tech-enabled care, housing options, and intergenerational connection.
The Alliance to Improve Dementia Care is a Milken Institute program that works to increase timely detection and diagnosis of dementia, improve access to treatment and coordinated care, and address health equity for people living with dementia and their caregivers. It is guided by a Steering Committee of leaders from a wide range of organizations.
Lifespan refers to the total length of a person's life, while healthspan refers to the portion of that life spent in good health and free from serious illness or disability. The Milken Institute Future of Aging focuses on closing the gap between the two, ensuring that longer lives are also healthier ones.
Organizations can engage through the Leadership Council, a forum for leaders seeking to drive change and prepare institutions for an aging population, or through the Academic and Policy Council, which convenes experts to advance policies that improve the lives of older adults. Interested parties can contact Milken Institute Health directly for partnership opportunities.
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