Issue 6: January 2026

GAME CHANGER

The Librarian With a Business Plan for Well-Being

With lots of imagination and a little money, a neglected rural library is transformed into a community health hub.
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ALT/ SHIFT

Does Your Financial Plan Cover These Risks?

Preparing for the long term starts with money, but also should include vital quality-of-life factors.
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DEEP DIVE

The Robots Are Coming (Don’t Panic)

Stanford researchers are developing technologies — from milli-bots that clear blood vessels to droids that tidy homes — which promise
extended healthspan, greater independence and dignity for people as they age.
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GRANDPEOPLE

Bobbing Bubbe: "Love Every Little Piece of Schmaltz You Own"

A filmmaker captures her grandmother learning to swim at 82. Riding a bike comes next.

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FROM THE EDITOR

The beginning of a new year is a fitting time to imagine what’s next. In 1999, a book previewing the 21st century, Gray Dawn by Pete Peterson, opened with this line….
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LONGEVITY LITERACY

Cumulative Social Advantage

New research shows how connections affect aging at the cellular level.

FIVE QUESTIONS

Galit Nimrod on the World’s Largest Retirement Community

Why the Seniorland author says The Villages model “will grow and grow.”
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The Meaning of Older Voices

Cultural assumptions about what it means to be old and what it means to be young are reflected in how we hear aging artists.

SCL in the News: "The best years of your life are probably still ahead" - TIME

Laura Carstensen, founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, was featured in TIME magazine for her research on happiness, prosocial behavior, intergenerational relations, and the Center’s New Map of Life initiative.

To learn more about the how the topics covered in this issue affect longevity, check out SCL's New Map of Life initiative.

CONNECTION AND COMMUNITY

The Librarian with a Business Plan For Well-Being

Cumulative Social Advantage

Galit Nimrod on the World’s Largest Retirement Community

HEALTHSPAN AND THE FUTURE OF AGING

The Robots Are Coming (Don’t Panic)

FINANCING LONGER LIVES

Does Your Financial Plan Cover These Risks?

SCL Magazine Staff

Karen Breslau
Editor
David Pagano
Creative Director
Tamara Straus
Deputy Editor
Sarah Pollock
Contributing Editor
Amy Khokhar
Fact-Checking Editor
Yochai Z. Shavit, PhD
Director of Research
Laura Tejero
Videography & Photography
Nikki Tran Duff
Social Media

With appreciation to our Stanford  faculty reviewers:

Steven Hartley Collins, PhD, Stanford Biomechatronics Laboratory
Hazel Markus, PhD, Department of Psychology
Anthony D. Wagner, PhD, Department of Psychology

SCL Magazine is supported in part by our Industrial Affiliates Program Members.

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