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Governments and Employers Need to Get Real About Longevity

As lifespans lengthen around the world, men and women are: delaying when they marry and have children; returning to school as adults to gain skills and working beyond traditional retirement age. In countries as dissimilar as Japan and Morocco, they’re marrying five to 10 years later on average than their parents did. In the United Kingdom, more women are having babies in their 40s than before turning 20. And in the U.S., most employees 50 and older say they want to keep working after turning 65.

Now, governments and businesses need to catch up to individuals’ efforts adapting to longevity. The policymakers and employers have to revise their work, education, health care and…

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 Governments and Employers Need to Get Real About Longevity

How a few countries and programs get it and why others need to.

Blue Zones Project

What if generations of people could live longer, healthier, happier lives? What if it wasn't so hard to do because their surroundings made it easy? Leveraging secrets discovered in Blue Zones around the world—rare longevity hotspots—Blue Zones Project® is helping transform communities across the U.S. into areas where the healthy choice is easy and people live longer with a higher quality of life.

Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Buck Institute scientists are focused on extending the healthy years of life. Our unique interdisciplinary research is targeted at influencing the aging process itself in order to prevent or delay the disorders commonly associated with aging – Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, cancer, arthritis, stroke, osteoporosis, and cardiovascular disease, eye diseases, among others.

Methuselah Foundation

Because saving lives is the most valuable thing anyone can spend their time doing, and since over 100,000 people die every single day of causes that young people essentially never die of, you'll save more lives by helping to cure aging than in any other way.

Stanford Center on Longevity

The Stanford Center on Longevity is creating a New Map of Life™ so that we can be mentally sharp, physically fit and financially secure throughout century-long lives filled with a sense of belonging, purpose and worth.

The Larry Ellison Foundation

The Ellison Medical Foundation supports basic biomedical research on aging relevant to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities. The Foundation particularly wishes to stimulate new, creative, research that might not be funded by traditional sources or that is often under-funded in the U.S.

Age UK

Age UK aims to improve later life for everyone through our information and advice, services, campaigns, products, training and research.

Alcor Life Extension Foundation

The Alcor Life Extension Foundation is the world leader in cryonics, cryonics research, and cryonics technology. Cryonics is the science of using ultra-cold temperature to preserve human life with the intent of restoring good health when technology becomes available to do so.

Alliance for Aging Research

The private, not-for-profit Alliance for Aging Research is the nation's leading citizen advocacy organization for improving the health and independence of Americans as they age.

American Aging Association

The American Aging Association is dedicated to harnessing the power of basic biomedical research to maintain, restore and increase functional life span in older adults through research, education, and advocacy in the field of biomedical gerontology.

American Federation for Aging Research

Research on aging and the aging process leads the way to a greater understanding of all age-related diseases.

American Geriatrics Society

The Society provides leadership to healthcare professionals, policy makers and the public by implementing and advocating for programs in patient care, research, professional and public education, and public policy.

American Society on Aging

Welcome to ASA, the largest organization of multidisciplinary professionals in the field of aging. Our resources, publications, and educational opportunities are geared to enhance the knowledge and skills of people working with older adults and their families.

German Society of Anti-Aging Medicine

Unser Ansatz ist, dass wir Alterungsprozesse als den wesentlichen Risikofaktor für die gängigen Volks-und Zivilisationskrankheiten identifiziert haben. Ein vertieftes Verständnis dieser Alterungsprozesse und deren gezielte Beeinflussung ist daher das Konzept im Kampf für ein gesundes Altern.

Gerontological Society of America

GSA provides researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy makers with opportunities to understand, advance, integrate, and use basic and applied research on aging to improve the quality of life as one ages.

International Society for the Study of the Aging Male

The International Society for the Study of the Aging Male (ISSAM) was formed and incorporated in the United Kingdom in 1997 with the objective of promoting research, study and education on all matters relating to men's health after the age of 30.

John A. Hartford Foundation

Founded in 1929, the John A. Hartford Foundation is a committed champion of health care training, research and service system innovations that will ensure the well-being and vitality of older adults. Its overall goal is to increase the nation's capacity to provide effective, affordable care to its rapidly increasing older population.

Leadership Council of Aging Organizations

We are a large coalition of the nation's non-profit organizations serving older Americans. Our 53 member association is diverse and dedicated to preserving and strengthening the well-being of America's older population.

National Ageing Research Institute

The National Ageing Research Institute (NARI) aims to be the centre of excellence in Australia for research into ageing and improving the quality of life and health of older people. NARI conducts research in the community, hospital and residential care settings.