Issue 13

Issue 13: September 2026

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FIVE QUESTIONS

Andrew Scott on Baby Busts and Growth Booms

New research finds that lower birth rates have not reduced GDP.
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ALT/ SHIFT

Making Time to Talk About Life’s End

“It’s always too soon until it’s too late,” says the founder of the Conversation Project.
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MORE IN THIS ISSUE

FIVE QUESTIONS
Andrew Scott on Baby Busts and Growth Booms

ALT/SHIFT
Making Time to Talk About Life’s End

DEEP DIVE
Rebuilding the On-Ramp to Adulthood

GRANDPEOPLE
The Traveling Nanas

FROM THE EDITOR

GAME CHANGER
Lucy Marcil on Money as Medicine

FINANCING LONGER LIVES
What Aging Parents Want the “Kids” to Know

LONGEVITY LITERACY
Palliative Aesthetics

@SCL:
Sightlines Project Reveals Paradoxical Pattern in Americans’ Health Behaviors
Bernardo Mackenna: How Bodies “Tell the Story”
Making Sense of Peptide Mania

DEEP DIVE

Rebuilding the On-Ramp to Adulthood

Young Americans are missing out on a vital decade of career- and relationship-building that sets their futures in motion. The costs will compound for decades if we don’t make changes.
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GRAND PEOPLE

The Traveling Nanas

“It’s never too late to have a best friend” — or to hit the road, rail or sky with her.
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FROM THE EDITOR

The longevity conversation is often — and understandably — focused on what happens later in life. Yet research increasingly shows that the foundation for longer, healthier lives is laid in life’s first quarter, before birth through childhood and early adulthood.

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GAME CHANGER