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Center on Longevity

Transforming the culture of human aging using science and technology.

In less than one century, life expectancy increased by an average of 30 years in developed regions of the world. Combined with a reduction in fertility rates across the same period, the changes in age distribution now under way in the population - both nationally and internationally - are dramatic and unprecedented. Added years can be a gift or a burden to humanity depending upon how they are used. The aim of the Center is to use increased life expectancy to bring about profound advances in the quality of life from early childhood to old age.



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Adele Hayutin, PhD
Adele Hayutin, PhD



Adele Hayutin, PhD is Senior Research Scholar and Director of SCL's Global Aging Project, which initiates collaborative research and public discourse on the challenges of population aging. During her twenty-year career as a business economist, Hayutin has focused on issues and trends affecting business investment strategy. Her recent focus has turned to the economic and policy implications of global demographic change. She is a frequent public speaker and has developed a comparative international perspective highlighting surprising demographic differences across countries and illustrating the unexpected speed of critical demographic trends.

Recent publications: Demographic Shifts Create Challenges and Opportunities- PREA Quarterly

Speaking engagements: Gerontological Society of America, Annual conference

 

 

Publication
How Population Aging Differs Across Countries:
A Briefing on Global Demographics
Adele M. Hayutin, Ph.D.

The Graying of the Global Population
Adele M. Hayutin, Ph.D.

 

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SCL Action

The SCL has funded three postdoctoral fellows this year for three years of full-time research in interdisciplinary studies related to aging and longevity. For more information, click the following link. SCL Fellowships

 

The New York Times (Sunday, March 9) recently ran an article titled So a Senior Citizen Walks Into a Bar... in which Dr. Laura Carstensen, Director of the Center, is quoted as saying " It’s astounding to me that people continue to regularly make incredibly ageist statements. There is no reason to depict people in their 70’s as feeble and frail and doddering." read more

 

In the city of Jaipur India, a foundation called BVMSS has been providing free prostheses to leg amputees for years. Their 'Jaipur foot' is renowned for its function, durability and natural appearance and is inexpensive to make. BVMSS has provided about a million foot prosthetics to needy Indian patients so far. For patients that have amputations above the knee, however, the available knee joints are seriously lacking.

So a team of students in bio-mechanical engineering at Stanford has embarked on a project to design a better, but ultra-affordable, knee. Sponsored by the Stanford Program in Biodesign (directed by SCL affiliate Paul Yock), this team, part of a graduate level class taught by SCL affiliate Dr. Thomas Andriacchi, is also advised by SCL Director of Private Sector Initiatives Steve Goldband. He visited the clinic in India to gain a fuller understanding of the problem and potential solutions, and to establish a working partnership. Goldband's insights into the workings of the clinic, needs of the patients in India, and available materials and manufacturing capability are instrumental to the success of the project. read more

 

Getting older and getting better: An interview with SCL Director Laura Carstensen recently appeared in CNN/ Money Magazine. read more read more

 

What will it mean to live twice as long as your ancestors? Stanford Center on Longevity Director Laura Carstensen and Deputy Director Tom Rando are currently co-teaching a course titled "Longevity" (PSYCH 102/ NENS 32). In this course students learn about implications of longer lives for themselves and for societies. Myths and misconceptions surround the aging process and societal implications are often blurred by political grandstanding. The objective of the course is to provide students with an informed grasp of the conceptual issues, empirical findings, and current controversies surrounding longevity. By adopting a multidisciplinary approach, Professor Rando- a neurologist and biogerontologist- and Professor Carstensen- a psychologist and life-span developmentalist- will help students understand new challenges to health care, financial markets, families, work, and politics. read more

 

In the Winter and Spring Quarters of 2008, Anne Friedlander (Director of the SCL's Major Project on Mobility) and her colleagues, Carol Winograd, Terry Winograd and Paul Yock (SCL faculty affiliates) will team teach a class entitled "Agile Aging" designed to develop new strategies and products to enhance mobility in seniors. The projects will find novel ways to integrate computer and device technologies with behavioral and social interventions. read more


 

 

 



 



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