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by Stanford Center on Longevity
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 among the most remarkable achievements in all of human history — and the greatest challenge of the 21st century. How can we ensure that our lives are not just longer, but healthy and rewarding as well? Century Lives ventures into the world of education, work, healthcare, housing, and more to explore how our future as a population of centenarians has already begun.
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- Jul 8, 202624 min
Treatment
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 prefer aging in place, so the need for technologies that support activities of daily living, mobility, and social connection is growing. In Century Lives: The AgeTech Revolution, we travel to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where we and 150,000 of our closest friends scope out the technologies that claim they will improve our lives as we grow older. We ask: What do we want our final quarter of life to look like? And can the AgeTech industry actually improve the ways we live our longer lives? Experts and innovators alike are betting on the future of hospital care. Many of them say it won’t take place in a hospital at all. Instead, hospital care will be brought to patients in their homes. So in this episode, we ask: Is the home the new hospital for older adults? Is a healthcare revolution headed our way? Some experts are not so certain.
- Jun 24, 202623 min
Prevention
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 prefer aging in place, so the need for technologies that support activities of daily living, mobility, and social connection is growing. In Century Lives: The AgeTech Revolution, we travel to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where we and 150,000 of our closest friends scope out the technologies that claim they will improve our lives as we grow older. We ask: What do we want our final quarter of life to look like? And can the AgeTech industry actually improve the ways we live our longer lives? The population of older patients is growing. Within a decade, there will not be enough providers to care for them. So what if older adults can monitor their own health, and actually prevent disease before treatment is needed? In this episode, we explore digital health innovations at CES — and learn that the future of disease prevention technologies has a lot more in store than step counters and smart watches.
- Jun 10, 202631 min
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 of a chronic, disabling, or serious health condition. Most of that work is unrecognized and unpaid. And the situation is only getting worse as the population ages. Many experts argue that only technology can save us, with devices that can carry out caregiving tasks formerly done by humans. In this episode, we tour the aisles of The Consumer Electronics Show with Davis Park, Vice President of Transformation at a non-profit called Front Porch, to find out whether the tech cavalry is indeed on the way. His job is to evaluate and implement emerging technologies that can improve quality of life at the 20 Front Porch retirement communities in California and Florida.
- May 27, 202641 min
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 prefer aging in place, so the need for technologies that support activities of daily living, mobility, and social connection is growing. In Century Lives: The AgeTech Revolution, we travel to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where we and 150,000 of our closest friends scope out the technologies that claim they will improve our lives as we grow older. We ask: What do we want our final quarter of life to look like? And can the AgeTech industry actually improve the ways we live our longer lives? Over the past 20 years, researchers have shown that certain types of physical and mental exercise can help stave off dementia and other forms of cognitive decline. In this episode, we look at how innovators are turning to tech-based activities to maximize brain health in aging adults. And we visit a retirement community in Maryland that has developed an innovative program called Kinnections, which uses high-tech games to make the process more fun and effective.
- May 13, 202635 min
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 devices. But if technology pulled us apart - can it also put us back together? Today we meet a new generation of robot companions that are designed to fix loneliness.
- Apr 29, 202627 min
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 prefer aging in place, so the need for technologies that support activities of daily living, mobility, and social connection is growing. In Century Lives: The AgeTech Revolution, we travel to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where we and 150,000 of our closest friends scope out the technologies that claim they will improve our lives as we grow older. We ask: What do we want our final quarter of life to look like? And can the AgeTech industry actually improve the ways we live our longer lives? For aging adults, a loss of mobility often means the end of freedom and independence. In this episode, we talk to innovators who are developing exoskeletons and other robotic devices that rely on AI to help people move better and longer. We focus particularly on a company called Dephy, which makes sneakers that boost your ability to walk. The company’s founder describes them as e-bikes for your feet.
- Apr 15, 202658 min
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 mobility and other health challenges. This so-called “silver tsunami” is here to stay, and the math is ominous. The nation already has a housing shortage—and a senior-care shortage. On the plus side, many of these older folks will be healthier and more active, engaged, and tech-savvy than their peers in prior generations. But since their housing needs and preferences will also differ from those of their predecessors, new questions and challenges will arise. On Century Lives: The Home Stretch, we explore signs of hope and inspiration in communities where housing innovations for older adults are already afoot. We open our final episode of the season to housing questions from our listeners. How do I adjust to living in my adult child’s home? What are the benefits of living in a senior housing community on a college campus? Do I stay near my friends, or move to where relatives can help with my care? Fielding questions for the hour are host Ken Stern and renowned “place planning” expert Ryan Frederick.
- Apr 1, 202640 min
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 mobility and other health challenges. This so-called “silver tsunami” is here to stay, and the math is ominous. The nation already has a housing shortage—and a senior-care shortage. On the plus side, many of these older folks will be healthier and more active, engaged, and tech-savvy than their peers in prior generations. But since their housing needs and preferences will also differ from those of their predecessors, new questions and challenges will arise. On Century Lives: The Home Stretch, we explore signs of hope and inspiration in communities where housing innovations for older adults are already afoot. The ability of older adults to age in place at home and their community can be threatened by a single fall or mobility challenge. But sometimes the difference between a house that’s manageable and safe and one that’s not comes down to small things, like a grab bar, a hand railing, a rug that’s tacked down, or a robotic vacuum. Fifteen years ago, a nurse at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore came up with a unique, low-cost approach to making these kinds of changes in seniors’ homes, and it’s now a nationwide program called CAPABLE. The savings they’ve proven in hospitalizations and nursing home costs are astounding. As they like to say: Home is where the health is.
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About 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 among the most remarkable achievements in all of human history — and the greatest challenge of the 21st century. How can we ensure that our lives are not just longer, but healthy and rewarding as well? Century Lives ventures into the world of education, work, healthcare, housing, and more to explore how our future as a population of centenarians has already begun.
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