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We’re an aging nation. By 2050, for the first time ever, Americans over age 60 will outnumber those aged 10 to 24. Older adults increasingly...
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Century Lives
Do rules created when most people lived only to 50 or 60 still make sense when more and more people live to 100? Longer lives are, at once, among the most remarkable achievements in all of h...
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Listen to Century Lives, a Science & Medicine podcast by Ken Stern. Stream 77 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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Helping Hands & Hard Drives
There is a caregiving crisis in America. We simply don’t have enough caregivers to support the number of older adults who need help because...
Your Brain on Tech
We’re an aging nation. By 2050, for the first time ever, Americans over age 60 will outnumber those aged 10 to 24. Older adults increasingly...
Robot Pets: Holograms and the Future of Loneliness
New research indicates that loneliness is again on the rise. And people over 60 are spending more time online and with their own personal de...
Moving Forward
We’re an aging nation. By 2050, for the first time ever, Americans over age 60 will outnumber those aged 10 to 24. Older adults increasingly...
Where Should I Live?: A Call-In Special
By 2030, every Baby Boomer will be 65 or older. Many of these older adults will live alone and on limited incomes, and many will have mobili...
Capably Aging in Place
By 2030, every Baby Boomer will be 65 or older. Many of these older adults will live alone and on limited incomes, and many will have mobili...
Over the Rainbow
By 2030, every Baby Boomer will be 65 or older. Many of these older adults will live alone and on limited incomes, and many will have mobili...
Beyond Four Walls
There is nowhere near enough housing available in the U.S. for low-income older adults. Even people who qualify for government subsidies oft...
The Forgotten Middle
The forgotten middle—seniors with too much money to qualify for the government-subsidized housing offered to low-income folks, and too littl...
5 O’Clock Somewhere
Age segregation in housing is a relatively new phenomenon in human history. Until very recently, people aged with their families in intergen...
Rem Koolhaas
What is it about architecture that celebrates longevity? The world’s most famous architect, Frank Gehry, was actively at work until his deat...
Peter Eisenman
What is it about architecture that celebrates longevity? The world’s most famous architect, Frank Gehry, was actively at work until his deat...
Raj Rewal
What is it about architecture that celebrates longevity? The world’s most famous architect, Frank Gehry, was actively at work until his deat...
Moshe Safdie
What is it about architecture that celebrates longevity? The world’s most famous architect, Frank Gehry, was actively at work until his deat...
Frank Gehry
What is it about architecture that celebrates longevity? The world’s most famous architect, Frank Gehry, was actively at work until his deat...
Margaret Cho
Look around you: Our communities are filled with people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s, doing things that would have been unthinkable at t...
Billy Collins
Look around you: Our communities are filled with people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s, doing things that would have been unthinkable at t...
Diana Nyad
Look around you: Our communities are filled with people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s, doing things that would have been unthinkable at t...
Nina Totenberg
Look around you: Our communities are filled with people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s, doing things that would have been unthinkable at t...