A collection of seven innovators and thinkers shed light on how we can avoid common problems when aging. Topics from "How we can avoid aging" to "Will a robot care for my mom?" vary in message and approach with a futuristic twist.
Bio
Jose Colluci
Jose Colluci is the practice lead for IDEO's Health group in Boston, with interest in social trends and design for the aging population.
Joseph Coughlin
Joseph Coughlin is the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab. He was named one of America's 12 pioneers inventing the future of retirement and aging by the Wall Street Journal.
Aubrey de Grey
Dr. Aubrey de Grey is an author and theoretician in the field of gerontology, and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Foundation. He is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007).
Robert Kane Pappas
Robert Kane Pappas is the director and writer of "To Age or Not To Age," a film that tracks the pioneers in the field of anti-aging research while addressing some of the moral, religious, practical and economic implications of increased lifespan.
Gregory Stock
Gregory Stock is founding CEO of Signum Biosciences, which is developing therapeutics for Alzheimer's, best-selling author, biotech entrepreneur and founding director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA's School of Medicine.
Marilyn Jordan Taylor
Architect and urban designer Marilyn Jordan Taylor is known for her passionate involvement in the design of urban projects and civic initiatives, as well as for her exceptional leadership on some of the most complex public and institutional projects around the world.
An expert in using public space and infrastructure to shape urban districts and civic places, Ms. Taylor leads SOM's Urban Design & Planning practice, including such projects as Columbia University's Manhattanville Master Plan, the East River Waterfront Master Plan, the reclamation of Con Ed's East River sites for mixed-use development, the new research building at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and the new urban campus for John Jay College. Ms. Taylor also founded and leads SOM Airports and Transportation, working on U.S. airport projects such as Terminal 4 at JFK, Continental Airlines at Newark, and the expansion of Washington, DC's Dulles International Airport. Her international airport projects include SkyCity at Hong Kong International Airport and the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, as well as the new Terminal 3 at Singapore's Changi Airport. Ms. Taylor's transit work has been equally diverse, ranging from the award-winning Changi Airport Station in Singapore to the Transit-Friendly Land Use Handbook for New Jersey Transit. Her train projects include all 15 intercity rail stations from Washington, DC to Boston. She also led SOM's planning and transportation design for reuse of New York's Farley Post Office as the Moynihan Station.
Arlene Weintraub
Arlene Weintraub is the author of Selling the Fountain of Youth, a book about the anti-aging industry. She has over fifteen years of experience writing about healthcare, including the science and business of health.
Scientific and medical disciplines, respectively, concerned with all aspects of health and disease in the elderly and with the normal aging process. Gerontology is concerned primarily with the changes that occur between maturity and death and with the factors that influence these changes. It addresses the social and economic effects of an aging population and the physiological and psychological aspects of aging to learn about the aging process and possibly minimize disabilities. Geriatrics deals with prevention and treatment of diseases once assumed to be inevitable in the elderly. See also aging.
First read doctor Kenyon for a current primer. Cynthia Kenyon's article mentions most areas. However to highlight two or three areas not touched on or gone over lightly one could also look at late life switch to low protein in the diet and increased lifespan in female mice given young donor organs later in the reproductive cycle. Eric
Sorry, I'm 77 and I can't make head or tail out of Mr. Aubrey's message. He's talking so fast and you gave me no way to turn up the volume so I could not make out what he was saying. He's got so much hair all over him in a long view and no closeup so I'm can't see his face or his eyes to tell if he's just selling a scam.
How do people like this get away with talking about aging when they have no clue how to get their message across to people who are seniors? If we can't understand him or trust him (please give him some scissors) his message is meaningless and I won't waste my time with him. Are all your folks so "taken" with themselves?
@Moochie -- isn't it possible to both enjoy your life *and* extend it? Why is it either/or? What do you mean by "the new aging is the same as the old aging?"
If you think you are OK with dying and it's pathetic to extend life, here is a little thought experiment. Aubrey invents magic pill that "cures aging." In reality, you would take such a pill. Are you then pathetic? Aubrey is actually much braver than someone who resigns in cynicism and despair thinking, this will never work so why try?
I think it's exciting. It will no doubt revolutionalize societies. I like that it is one way of dealing with disease. A wise dirrection to push this life extending science.
Seems to me that the "New Aging" is no different from the "Old" aging. Watching this nonsense I am left with the thought: How pathetic!
The title should be, "I'm afraid of dying so I invest my intellectual ability in thinking up new 'strategies' for avoiding same -- the key word being 'avoidance'."
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