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New Frontier for Successful Aging: Financial Gerontology in the Spotlight at White House Conference on Aging
At last week's 2015 White House Conference on Aging, President Obama spoke to us about opportunity f
or all Americans, saying that individuals should have a shot to achieve their dreams "at any age." An evolving force to achieve that goal is financial ge
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Technology: Catalyst for a New Era of Aging in Place
In Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Hal, the defiant onboard computer, foreshado
ws a future of runaway artificial intelligence.
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Purposeful Aging: A Model for a New Life Course
Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Encore.org, offers an insightful observation about the promise and
potential of longer lives. “Thousands of baby boomers each day surge into their 60s and 70s,” he wrote in a recent article for The Wall Street Journal.
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Global Conference and Other Highlights from the Center for the Future of Aging
In this issue:
The Business of Aging »
Healthy Longevity »
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Making plants into products through industrial biotech would benefit from policy support, effective advocacy and sustained funding
LOS ANGELES — Industrial biotechnology can turn plants into plastics, chemicals and other products t
hat are usually made with petroleum.
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Outcome-based philanthropic giving can drive food security and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to Milken Institute report
(LOS ANGELES) Despite significant donor and philanthropic efforts, economic growth in sub-Saharan Af
rica continues to be hampered by agricultural diseases that sicken or kill livestock and contaminate crops.
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New, effective investment models work to fund drug discovery for the developing worldMilken Institute report identifies innovative financing for global health research
LOS ANGELES— The world of medicine has long been divided— between developed countries that can affor
d cutting-edge treatments and developing ones whose poor populations too often go without urgently needed care.
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The Key to Ultimate Health: Bioresilience
Let’s envision a model for healthy, functional longevity based on evaluating and improving the body’
s bioresilience.
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Healthspan, Not Lifespan
Thiel Fellow, Laura Deming, is on a mission to extend human healthspan. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30
alum and was one of the stars of The Age of Aging, a documentary by National Geographic.
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How to Make U.S. Cities Blue Zones for Healthy Longevity
New York Times bestselling author, Dan Buettner has traveled the globe visiting the places in the wo
rld where higher percentages of people enjoy long, full lives, areas dubbed “Blue Zones.” He founded Blue Zones LLC to help people live longer, healt
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The Best Way to Improve Brain Health
Renowned neurosurgeon, Keith Black, has pioneered advances in our understanding and treatment o
f brain cancers and complex neurological conditions.
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Aging in the Future of Health
When the Senate Aging Committee was first established in 1961, 9 percent of Americans were over age
65.
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