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Aging to improve the quality of life and financial security for older Californians. COVID-19 has increased the urgency of responding to these needs.

, increasing ethnic and cultural diversity, and deep fragmentation of the health care system.

eeply driven by curiosity—after all, I am a Milken Scholar!, Let us be bridges to better understand each other. We are more alike than we are different. , I don’t always agree with the people I speak with. Behind bars in a California prison—an institution housing more men serving life sentences than anywhere else in the state—it was difficult to hear men admit they robbed or worse: taken lives.

need to be upskilled to fill the new jobs that will be created by rapidly changing technology.” “We need to train and prepare our workers now for jobs in, The future is now. The need to upskill our workers has never been more urgent. , More than 40 million people have lost their jobs or were furloughed since the economy began to shut down in mid-March to combat the spread of COVID-19.

epared for a growing, aging population., Now is the time to seize the opportunity to reimagine care for older adults, offering more choices in how they receive care and thrive later in life. , What Did We Explicitly Learn From the Pandemic? We need to simplify a somewhat broken, complex system and offer care coordination. Access to care in the home is insufficient., Next Steps: Creating a ‘System’ That Supports Aging Simplify the complex health system. Each state should develop a Master Plan for Aging.

t will change the way we think about many things, including how food arrives (or doesn’t arrive) on our plates., While we’re still learning how to fight the virus, we already know how to feed our people. And we know that fighting the current crisis gives us the opportunity to make long-term improvements to our food ecosystem. ,

, Americans have begun to insist that we “open up” again., Loneliness is killing people. If you chose to ignore it before the pandemic, you can’t now. , It’s on all of us to recognize the impacts of loneliness on our seniors. Let’s start in our own homes with the small personal changes that feel right. Call your dad. Visit your neighbors.