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Finding Purpose in the Time of the Coronavirus

7 ideas from a Next Avenue Influencer in Aging (Across caregiving and community, business and intergenerational attitudes, the pandemic and how we respond to it could change us forever. Next Avenue turned to some of our Influencers in Aging...
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Paul Irving

Senior Advisor, Future of Aging
Paul Irving is a corporate and nonprofit director and advisor to leaders in business, philanthropy, and academia. Irving is a senior advisor at the Milken Institute, a national advisor at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a national law and consulting firm, and a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.
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The Pandemic Is Stress Testing Aging in Place

As we write this article, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced large swaths of the globe to remain at home and practice physical distancing to limit the spread of this new and dangerous virus. For most people, this is a highly unusual and...
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Christopher Herbert

Managing Director, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
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Reducing the Cost and Risk of Dementia

Increased longevity is perhaps one of the greatest success stories of our modern public health system. But along with this success comes one of our greatest challenges to healthy longevity. As we age, the risk of neurodegenerative disease...
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Age-Forward Cities for 2030

Cities are ground zero for the demographic shift that is changing America and the world, and city leaders are just beginning to understand the promise of an engaged older population. The urban landscape already holds resources—human...
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Paul Irving, Caroline Servat, and Nora Super

Older and Out of Work? Here's What to Do.

British film star Michael Caine has a philosophy that has kept him, at age 81, a busy man in youth-obsessed Hollywood. In his autobiography “What’s It All About?” Mr. Caine writes, “If you want to do something with your life, never listen...
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