The Emergence of Life-Long Learning
Chip Conley is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the second largest boutique hotel brand in America. He currently serves as Airbnb’s Strategic Advisor for Hospitality and Leadership, and is a member of SCL’s Advisory Council.

Sightlines Project Research Update on Sleep
In a world full of opportunities, stressors, inequalities, and distractions, maintaining a healthy lifestyle can be challenging, and sleep is often the first habit to suffer. Good sleep hygiene is a huge commitment: it takes up about a third of the day, every day, and works best when kept on a consistent schedule. It does not help that the primary short-term symptoms of insufficient sleep can be self-medicated away with caffeine. However, the effects of sleep loss can range from inconvenient to downright dangerous; people have trouble learning and being productive, take risks more readily, and are more likely to get into accidents. These effects also last longer than it takes to get them, as recovering from each night of poor sleep takes multiple days. When it comes to sleep, every night counts. In this update, we will discuss what Stanford researchers have to say about sleep and why we need it, who is getting too little of it, and some of the latest findings that may help us sleep better. Read more

In an age of unprecedented longevity, a focus on lifelong individual financial security has never been more crucial. The mission of the Financial Security Division is to bring a unique interdisciplinary perspective to financial security issues facing our society by rethinking the perceived problems around an aging population, especially retirement planning and the need to work longer. By understanding the role that research, education and policy can play in solving these issues and by looking at the problems from multiple perspectives, we will drive the dialogue forward in order to facilitate a healthier state of long-term financial security for the individual and society.

Center Team

Martha Deevy
Jialu Streeter, PhD
Steve Vernon, FSA

New Map of Life

Financial Security: Matteo Leombroni, PhD, Fellow | Gopi Shah Goda, PhD, Faculty Advisor
Work: Alice Milivinti, PhD, Fellow | David Rehkopf, PhD, Faculty Advisor

Thinking Ahead: Informing the Design of a Roadmap for Keeping Your Money Safe as You Age
Preparing for changes in financial decision-making capacity is essential for a secure retirement. Unfortunately, the majority of Americans are underprepared for periods of diminished decision-making capacity as they age.

To inform how we might encourage older adults to plan for the future, a multi-disciplinary team of researchers worked together to understand the barriers to and facilitators of advance financial care planning. This research will inform the development of a toolkit and website that will be ready in the first half of 2021. These resources will be very useful for individuals, financial planners, financial institutions, and non-profit and community groups that serve seniors and their families.

The research team – Naomi Karp and Steve Vernon, Consulting Research Scholars at the Stanford Center on Longevity, and Dr. Marti DeLiema, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota—recently published their research findings on the website of the Society of Actuaries.

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