Stanford Center on Longevity’s New Map of Life™ initiative aims to envision a society that supports people to live secure and high-quality lives for a century or more. This new initiative will research and define new models for education and lifelong learning, redesign how we work, advise new policies for health care, housing, the environment and financial security, and promote more intergenerational partnerships. 

Center on Longevity Advisory Council member Chip Conley has launched a daily blog called Wisdom Well housed on the Modern Elder Academy website. The focus is on how to cultivate and harvest wisdom throughout life. 

No Stopping Us Now, a new book by New York Times op ed columnist and historian Gail Collins, offers a detailed account of the contributions and views of older American women over more than 400 years. Collins tells readers at the outset the attitudes toward older women zigzagged between positive and negative over time. Women’s status rose and fell depending in large part on their economic contributions, she shows. In agrarian colonial times, women were respected as hard workers and even widows who made it to the age of 50 were in demand to become brides again. But in the 19th century, as the U.S. urbanized, middle-aged and older women were largely confined to their homes.