Laura Carstensen says we need to rethink mental and physical health, exercise, careers, and financial planning to better sync with expanding healthy lifespans. She says: “The culture we live in today, which evolved around lives half as long, does a pretty good job of...
Research Highlights #14 reviews the NIA Aging Center program. With the proportion of older people increasing in the United States and around the world, we face new challenges and opportunities, particularly in the areas of health care and retirement systems, long-term...
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the NIA Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging, a special issue of the *Journal of Population Ageing* has published five papers based on presentations at the 2014 RAND Summer Institute on Aging. John Haaga and...
Although birth rates are low in Pennsylvania, Emilio Parado says other factors are also contributing to the shifting age structure. He expresses concern about high losses of college graduates and low rates of immigration, saying: “Pennsylvania has been lagging...
Richard M. Suzman, director of NIA’s Division of Behavioral and Social Research, died on April 16, 2015. He was 72. A pioneer in the science of the demography of disability and the bio-demography of aging, Suzman helped create new transdisciplinary research areas,...
