Century Lives Podcast: Recent Episodes
Stanford Center on Longevity
The mission of the Stanford Center on Longevity is to accelerate and implement scientific discoveries, technological advances, behavioral practices, and social norms so that century long lives are healthy and rewarding.
We created the Century Lives podcast to provide a platform for informed discussion on a wide range of topics, between leading experts in academia, business and public policy. These conversations will foster a better understanding of the state of current research, and provide fresh perspectives on how best to optimize longer lives.
Throughout most of our existence, humans have rarely lived past the age of 35. But over the past century, average life expectancy around the world has more than doubled. Half of all babies born in the US today will live to see their 100th birthdays.
This nearly 70 year increase in life expectancy has paved the way for unprecedented opportunities, and the challenges that come with them. Much of our society, culture, and infrastructure was not designed with this increase in mind. So, we ask, what does this mean for individuals, communities, and entire cultures? How does this affect the traditional models of education, work and retirement still in use today? And how can we prepare ourselves and subsequent generations for the challenges and benefits that longer lives bring?
Welcome to the Stanford Century on Longevity podcast, Century Lives. Join our host, Marie Conley Smith, in conversations with leading experts in academia, business, and public policy to discuss this new, longer lifespan, and how we can stay mentally sharp, physically fit, and financially secure in these new Century Lives.
Century Lives sits down with Professor Victor Fuchs, the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Economics and Health Research and Policy at Stanford University. He joins us today to discuss his latest book,Health Economics and Policy, which is a compilation of his selected public lectures, articles, papers, and op-eds during the past 50 years. We explore health policy and potential health care reform, as well as his career, family, and inspirations.
Guest interviewer Marti DeLiema, research scholar at the Stanford Center on Longevity, sits down with Steve Vernon to discuss the MORE Design, a new strategy to help both employers and employees work together to provide the optimal plans for health and financial security. It brings together psychological science and behavioral economics to provide a comprehensive approach that will be more effective in enacting long-term changes to employees’ finances. Steve is a consulting research scholar for SCL and currently writes for CBS MoneyWatch, with recent work including the MORE Design and the Spend Safely in Retirement Strategy.
Our host Marie Conley-Smith, social science researcher at the Stanford Center on Longevity, interviews David Markowitz, recent graduate of Stanford’s Communication Department and Professor at University of Oregon.
Century Lives talks to Professor Cecilia Ridgeway, the Lucie Stern Professor of Social Sciences in the Sociology Department at Stanford University. She discusses concepts in her upcoming book, such as status and stereotypes in culture,