Director of the Longevity Genes Project at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Nir Barzilai has discovered several longevity genes in humans that appear to protect centenarians against major age-related diseases. Barzilai is also co...

Six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner, Alan Alda, wants people to have better conversations. Alda is the former host of PBS’s Scientific American Frontiers, where he interviewed scientists and helped them communicate complex ideas to...

Countries undergoing population aging today are facing a much different experience than their historical counterparts. One only needs to look at the countries in Asia to see how these trends are unfolding. Demographic aging is happening...

LOS ANGELES, February 22, 2018 – Opportunities presented by an aging population will not be fully realized unless business leaders act to prepare for this irreversible shift in demography, according to a new report released by the Milken...

Opportunities presented by an aging population will not be fully realized unless business leaders act now to prepare for this irreversible shift in demography. To discuss the significance of population aging for the business sector and...

I recently read an article in The New York Times about tennis great Roger Federer and how he, at 36 years old, is experiencing a late-career resurgence. It is as though age is no longer a limiting definer. [1] No one in pro tennis, save...

Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) have and will continue to reshape the population—we should be reshaping business to meet their changing needs as they age. We are completely under-investing in and under-serving older adults in this...

Work dominates much of our adult lives. For many recent generations, work, family, and community comprised the entirety of our adult lives, with education occupying childhood for the lucky ones. Over time, a legal and regulatory framework...

Aging is big business. A growing demand for everything from comfortable shoes to on-call caregivers prompted a New York Times headline to declare baby boomers as the hottest start-up market in 2016. In fact, the sum of all economic activity...

Perceptions about age and the workplace are evolving. Just a handful of years ago, it was the expectation that older workers should leave the workplace at 65 years—a “retirement age” that dates back to the late 19th century. The recently...