Web Resources

• Aging America Project, especially the demographic video called The Big Idea
   
• World Health Organization, Ageing and life-course

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Video Links

• Aging in the 21st Century
   
• 100 Year Old Bride
   
• George Vaillant: Triumphs of Experience
   
• “The Many Faces of Aging”
   

Audio Links

• How do professional athletes deal with their changing bodies as they age? From National Public Radio
   
• Does the future belong to the old? And is it time to redefine what we mean by old age?
   

Web Resources

• Check out the blog Time Goes By: What It’s Really Like to Get Older
   
• The New York Times features a blog on aging and later life issues called “The New Old Age”
   
• This Chair Rocks is a blog devoted to challenging negative stereotypes about growing older

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Video Links

• Third Agers
   
• Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
   
• Joan Erickson at 92
   

Audio Links

• The far shore of aging, from On Being
   
• Life-review, from Think Out Loud
   

Web Resources

• Check out a blog convened by Dr. Bill Thomas, founder of the Eden Alternative
   
• An overview of resources and ideas about Erikson’s stages of lifespan development
   
• The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
   
• Stanford Center on Longevity

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Video Links

• Longevity Genes
   
• Can We Slow Aging?
   
• Our Aging Bodies—Women Vs. Men
   

Audio Links

• The biology of aging, from Nature
   
• The Blue Zones, from National Public Radio
   
• The oldest population in the world
   
• A new look at old age
   

Web Resources

• Check out the report from the Pew Research Center, “Living to 120 and Beyond”
   
• Watch and discuss the TED Talk with Aubrey de Grey: A Roadmap to End Aging
   
• Check out a photo gallery of long-lived humans, from National Geographic
   
• Hacks to erase the trials of aging

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Video Links

• The Secrets of the Middle Aged Brain
   
• The Female Brain and Aging
   
• The Science of Nostalgia
   

Audio Links

• Exploring Alzheimer’s Disease, with Dr. Peter Whitehouse, from Brain Science
   

Web Resources

• The most extensive study of late-life learning ever conducted has been done by Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel).  Two reports are now available.
   
• Explore the website for the National Center for Creative Aging
   
• Creative Aging Toolkit for public libraries
   
• The Association for Education and Aging

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Video Links

• Senorville, the Suburbs Turn 65
   
• Training Tools for LGBT Aging Issues
   

Audio Links

• Learn more about the Affordable Care Act, from National Public Radio:
   

Web Resources

• Discovering the true cost of at-home caregiving, from National Public Radio
   
• Who needs long-term-care insurance? From National Public Radio
   
• Long-term Care Systems, World Health Organization
   
• For the most recent report on healthy aging in America
   
• The Kaiser Family Foundation has recently issued an update of an important resource, Medicare: A Primer
   
• Medicare at a Glance
   
• What is an Assisted Living Facility? Eldercare.gov is a one-stop web resource for information about the continuum of long-term care
   
• Want to calculate long-term care costs where you and your family live? Check out this calculator
   
• For more on the costs of long-term care, read the 2012 MetLife Market Survey
   
• Long-term Care Myths Debunked

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Video Links

• Setting Limits
   
• Health Care Rationing and Public Debate
   
• Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe
   

Web Resources

• The Kaiser Family Foundation offers very useful resources on aging and health care costs
   
• Check out what some experts who are now older adults have to say about health care rationing on the Hastings Center’s Over 65 blog
   
• Offshoring our grandparents?

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Video Links

• My House, Our Home
   
• South Korea’s War on Dementia
   

Audio Links

• Balancing the needs of multiple generations living together, from National Public Radio
   
• Preparing for a future with aging parents, from National Public Radio
   
• The role of ethnicity and spirituality in family caregiving
   
• Intergenerational caregiving, from National Public Radio
   
• The sandwich generation, from National Public Radio
   

Web Resources

• For online resources related to the question "Should Families Take Care of Their Own?"
   
• Check out this report on “The Return of the Multi-generational Family Household”
   
• To read about the American changing family
   
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers resources on family care giving
   
• Find many reports on care for older adults from the Scan Foundation
   
• Family caregivers continue to be adult daughters. A blog post on this topic
   
• The National Council on Aging has many informative resources, including information on a dictionary of eldercare terminology

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Video Links

• Self-Neglect: Getting the Elderly Help
   
• Confronting Elder Abuse in America
   
• Uncovering Elder Abuse
   

Audio Links

• Sexuality in nursing homes, from National Public Radio
   
• Elder abuse and elder justice podcast series
   

Web Resources

• National Center on Elder Abuse
   
• National Adult Protective Services
   
• To read more about sexuality in later life: National Institutes of Aging
   
• National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
   
• National Elder Law Foundation

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Video Links

• End-of-Life Counseling and Health Care Reform
   
• End of Life Decisions
   
• Hospice: the "gold standard" of end-of-life-care
   

Audio Links

• Talking About Dying
   
• Doctors discuss their own attitudes toward end-of-life issues, from Radiolab
   
• Making better end-of-life care decisions
   
• Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act and hospice workers
   
• Culturally sensitive hospice practices
   

Web Resources

• Compassion and Choices: Resource on end-of-life issues
   
• National Hospice Foundation: More about palliative care at the end-of-life
   
• Have you heard about the “Death Cafe” movement to demystify death?
   
• Family Caregiver Alliance: A helpful resource on end-of-life decision-making
   
• An essay on hospice from the perspective of a hospice nurse, from The New Yorker
   
• Dying Matters, a short film

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Video Links

• Old and wise? - Elderly in the Bundestag
   
• Raging Grannies: The Action League
   
• Over Fifty, Overdrawn
   

Audio Links

• Boomer finances, the basics, from National Public Radio
   
• Is middle age the time for saving money?
   
• Consumer-directed long-term care
   

Web Resources

• Population Bulletin: America’s Aging Population offers comprehensive demographic data on  population aging
   
• Up-to-date Aging Statistics
   
• A report from Pew Research on the rising age gap in economic well-being
   
• The Income of the Aged Chartbook provides comprehensive information on income and poverty for older adults
   
• U.S. Census Bureau-The Next Four Decades: Population estimates and projections, including for aging ethnic minorities

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Video Links

• Can Medicare be Fixed?
   
• Aging Germany: An Overview
   
• Critical Care in America
   
• Frontline: US entitlement programs unsustainable.
   

Audio Links

• Do you have a sense of entitlement? A podcast on the meaning behind the word “entitlement”
   
• An argument against seeking fiscal fix in cuts to Medicare and Social Security
   

Web Resources

• The "Expenditures of the Aged Chartbook"
   
• Daniel Callahan on generational equity
   
• The World Bank: Data on international dependency ratios
   
• Detailed information on poverty levels in the U.S.
   
• The National Center for Policy Analysis: Old age entitlement programs
   
• Benefits Check-up, from the National Council on Aging

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Video Links

• Franklin Roosevelt’s speech on the launching of Social Security
   
• Dr. Milton Friedman, The Social Security Myth
   
• The Voice of Women
   
• Social Security: The American Promise
   

Audio Links

• Want to understand how the Social Security trust fund works? From National Public Radio
   

Web Resources

• The Social Security Administration: "Fast Facts and Figures about Social Security." This chartbook presents the most important facts about Social Security and answers frequently asked questions about the subject.
   
• Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees annual report
   
• A report on the future financial sustainability of Social Security
   
• AARP and the future of Social Security
   
• Social Security policy options simulator

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Video Links

• Dynamics of Later Life Employment
   
• What is the “new old age”?
   

Audio Links

• Encore careers, with Marc Freedman, on National Public Radio
   
• Working past retirement age, with Marc Freedman, on National Public Radio
   

Web Resources

• The Center for Retirement Research provides many informative and timely resources on their website regarding retirement preparedness, early retirement, and the implications of the housing crisis for postwork life
   
• The Urban Institute: Resources on retirement policy
   
• How might we engage a multi-generational workforce?
   
• MetLife and the American Council on Aging: A study on mid-life and older adults in higher education
   
• Senior Corp : Work vs. Retirement? Another option is community service

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Video Links

• AARPMedia
   
• Baby Boomer Issues
   
• Need to Know: Baby Boomer Unemployment
   

Audio Links

• Baby boomers house-sharing, from National Public Radio
   
• Aging poorly: Another Act of Baby Boomer Rebellion, from National Public Radio
   
• How generations get their names, from National Public Radio
   

Web Resources

• The MetLife Report on the Oldest Boomers: “Leading edge” boomers who began to turn 65 in 2011
   
• MetLife: The retirement transition for boomers
   
• The Immersion Active: Adults 50+

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Video Links

• Susan Jacoby on Reality of Aging at Politics and Prose
   
• Social Media for Financial Advisors—It’s For Real
   

Audio Links

• Marketing to Older Adults, from the Gallup Poll
   
• Longevity advice and a pricey hormone drug, from National Public Radio
   

Web Resources

• A resource on both boomers and the new aging marketplace: Boomers: Marketing's Most Valuable Generation-despite their significant size and spending power, these high potential consumers have been largely unaddressed by marketers
   
• The truth behind anti-aging marketing
   
• The global anti-aging market