In July of 2019, in collaboration with the Stanford Center on Longevity, the Chautauqua Institution hosted a weeklong event, “The New Map of Life: How Longer Lives are Changing the World,” dedicated to addressing the benefits and challenges of longer lives. Among the lecture speakers was SCL Director Laura Carstensen, Linda Fried, Dean of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, and Amani Allen, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Community Health Sciences at UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
To listen to the talks and read news articles and speaker bios, see below.
Resources
“The New Map of Life: How Longer Lives are Changing the World”
Laura Carstensen, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity
“How Racism and Stressors Promote Early Aging Among Minorities”
Amani Allen, Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
“‘Grand Act of Imagination’ to Design a Better Future”
Linda Fried, Dean of Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health,