How will we make the most of an extra 30 years of life?
Demographers predict that as many as half of the children born in the developed world since 2000 will reach the age of 100 and beyond. Once a rare event, century-long lives will become commonplace by 2050. The near doubling of life expectancy presents a range of challenges — along with yet unrealized opportunities.
To the extent that we continue to live our lives according to the norms, institutions and policies based on lives half as long as the ones we now enjoy, we will surely face a crisis. However, if we act quickly to apply scientific and technological solutions and change the ways we live, the added years can improve quality of life at all ages.
In 2018, the Stanford Center on Longevity launched an initiative we call The New Map of Life, premised on the belief that this profound transformation in human longevity calls for equally momentous and creative changes in the ways we lead 100-year lives. Building on the work of Stanford Center on Longevity research fellows, who analyzed central life domains affecting long life outcomes, we argue that if we act now, we can not only meet the challenges longer lives present, but we can also use added years to improve quality of life at all ages. We have distilled this work into a set of crosscutting principles that can act as guideposts for The New Map of Life.
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