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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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—seniors with too much money to qualify for the government-subsidized housing offered to low-income folks, and too littl...
Age segregation in housing is a relatively new phenomenon in human history. Until very recently, people aged with their families in intergen...
What is it about architecture that celebrates longevity? The world’s most famous architect, Frank Gehry, was actively at work until his deat...
What is it about architecture that celebrates longevity? The world’s most famous architect, Frank Gehry, was actively at work until his deat...
What is it about architecture that celebrates longevity? The world’s most famous architect, Frank Gehry, was actively at work until his deat...
What is it about architecture that celebrates longevity? The world’s most famous architect, Frank Gehry, was actively at work until his deat...
What is it about architecture that celebrates longevity? The world’s most famous architect, Frank Gehry, was actively at work until his deat...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A future season of Century Lives will take a deep dive into the subject of housing. Our focus is inspired by a striking fact: The US is alre...
Sometimes a single question can open up a whole new world. About ten years ago, a young doctor named Sara Naseri was trying to think of how...
Two of the biggest social factors that contribute to health problems are financial insecurity and caregiving for family members. And it’s no...
What are autoimmune diseases, exactly? And how many people have them? Experts can’t quite agree on the precise number, but it’s a lot: somew...
Everyone knows that heart disease is a men’s issue. But as it turns out, everyone is wrong. Heart disease is also the leading killer of wome...
There are very few givens when it comes to menopause - and mostly unanswered questions. Should you treat menopause with hormones? Do hormone...
During its first hundred years, the National Institutes of Health, the world’s premiere medical research institution, used only male subject...
The United States has been described as the “most age-segregated society that’s ever been." In the final episode of Century Lives: The Centu...
It may not come as a surprise, but fixating on someone’s age can affect how you think about them—and even how they think about themselves. A...
It’s been said that you are what you eat, and Italians are aging like the fine wine that makes them famous. As older Italians retire and lea...
The national motto in South Korea is “hurry, hurry,” and that’s what the country did as it turned its metropolitan areas into “lifelong lear...
You can’t go anywhere in Japan without running into older workers. They might be driving your taxi, serving your food, or selling you ticket...
Americans are obsessed with youth. But instead of keeping us younger, that focus is proving detrimental to our health. Join us as we explore...
Though attitudes about retirement are shifting rapidly, traditional notions of retirement still hold currency. In Episode 6, we meet Maria a...
For some, work is a calling, and they can’t ever imagine giving it up. In episode 5, we meet Michael Segal, and hear his incredible journey—...
For some, retirement is just the starting pistol for that next act. Whether it is a new business or an entirely new career, retirement is ju...
Retire young: travel, spend time with family, perhaps tend to a nice piece of land in the country. It is the retirement that we all are supp...
It’s a common story: approaching retirement with little or no savings, uncertain how far social security or savings will take you, dealing w...
If there is a new vision of what “The New Retirement” should be, it is the “all of the above” retiree: stay healthy, stay involved in someth...
In episode 6, we explore an insidious epidemic, equivalent to the health effects of smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It can cause inflammation,...
Obesity rates have exploded in the US over the past half-century, with negative consequences for healthy longevity. We travel to rural Arkan...
In Episode 4, we explore how the built environment—and trees—impact communities. Renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead designe...
In Episode 3 of Century Lives Season 4: A Lifetime of Inequality, we go to Phoenix, Arizona, to understand how it is that the built environm...
As it turns out, a person's lifelong health and longevity take root even before they are born. Preterm birth and low birth weight are connec...
In Episode 1 of Century Lives Season 4: A Lifetime of Inequality, we visit Albuquerque, New Mexico, to explore the impact of early childhood...
In our last two episodes of the season, we explore the challenges of concentrated urban poverty—and the depressive effects it has on health...
In our last two episodes of the season, we explore the challenges of concentrated urban poverty, and the depressive effects it has on health...
Do the ladies of the Quilt Guild, the short order cooks at the City Pool Hall, and “Pumpkin Joe” hold the secrets to longer life? In episode...
What could housing possibly have to do with life expectancy? Quite a bit, actually. In episode 3 of Century Lives: Place Matters, we travel...
If there's one thing we know about life expectancy in the US, it's that wealthy communities have long life expectancies and poorer communiti...
If there's one thing we know about life expectancy in the US, it's that wealthy communities have long life expectancies and poor communities...