“A 20-year-old male today has a better chance of having a living grandmother than a 20-year-old in 1900 had of having a living mother.”
That’s according to Lauren Carstensen, director of Stanford’s Center on Longevity, who spoke during a panel on longevity at FORBES’ third annual Women’s Summit, a gathering of hundreds of women leaders with the intention of changing the imbalance of power in business.
The questions considered by the panel, which also included Longevity Fund partner (and former member of FORBES’ 30 Under 30 list) Laura Deming, AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation president Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, were varied: How have our lifespans changed in just a few generations? What’s happening in longevity research right now? How can we use technology and policy not only to extend the lives we have, but also to make our golden years more, well, golden?
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