M t connolly, whos here to talk about her new book, the measure of our age navigating safety, money and meaning later in life in the prolog of her book, empty notes during the previous century, americans gained an average age of an extra 30 years of life. So 80 is the new 50, and there are many more octogenarians nonagenarians enjoying life than ever before are given and technological advance is empty rights. There has never been a better time to be old. This also means that millions more people than ever before need and will continue needing care. Yet current systems focused on caring for the elderly can be baffling and really do vary quite a bit in quality. Aging can be hard m. T observes. Its been made infinitely and unnecessarily harder by our failure to. Build the infrastructure we need to age well now empties. Ames in in the measure of our age she says was to provide a clearer sense for people of where the relevant systems are now and where might be headed in hopes of enabling us
M t connolly, whos here to talk about her new book, the measure of our age navigating safety, money and meaning later in life in the prolog of her book, empty notes during the previous century, americans gained an average age of an extra 30 years of life. So 80 is the new 50, and there are many more octogenarians nonagenarians enjoying life than ever before are given and technological advance is empty rights. There has never been a better time to be old. This also means that millions more people than ever before need and will continue needing care. Yet current systems focused on caring for the elderly can be baffling and really do vary quite a bit in quality. Aging can be hard m. T observes. Its been made infinitely and unnecessarily harder by our failure to. Build the infrastructure we need to age well now empties. Ames in in the measure of our age she says was to provide a clearer sense for people of where the relevant systems are now and where might be headed in hopes of enabling us
Notes during the previous century, americans gained an average age of an extra 30 years of life. So 80 is the new 50, and there are many more octogenarians nonagenarians enjoying life than ever before are given and technological advance is empty rights. There has never been a better time to be old. This also means that millions more people than ever before need and will continue needing care. Yet current systems focused on caring for the elderly can be baffling and really do vary quite a bit in quality. Aging can be hard m. T observes. Its been made infinitely and unnecessarily harder by our failure to. Build the infrastructure we need to age well now empties. Ames in in the measure of our age she says was to provide a clearer sense for people of where the relevant systems are now and where might be headed in hopes of enabling us to forge what she calls a more just gentle and joyful old age for ourselves and for those we care about an empty is herself, especially well qualified to writ
Notes during the previous century, americans gained an average age of an extra 30 years of life. So 80 is the new 50, and there are many more octogenarians nonagenarians enjoying life than ever before are given and technological advance is empty rights. There has never been a better time to be old. This also means that millions more people than ever before need and will continue needing care. Yet current systems focused on caring for the elderly can be baffling and really do vary quite a bit in quality. Aging can be hard m. T observes. Its been made infinitely and unnecessarily harder by our failure to. Build the infrastructure we need to age well now empties. Ames in in the measure of our age she says was to provide a clearer sense for people of where the relevant systems are now and where might be headed in hopes of enabling us to forge what she calls a more just gentle and joyful old age for ourselves and for those we care about an empty is herself, especially well qualified to writ
Watch our life we can coverage of the Miami Book Fair this weekend on cspan2s booktv. Next, to Foreign Policy advisers for democrats and republicans debate healthcare policy including benefits, challenges of the current law, the gop attempts to repeal and replace it. Good morning. And hope you enjoyed the dinner last night and are bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning. Do we have a couple of panelists in the wings here somewhere by chance . Rumor had it i did. I see them, and theres a hand waiting. Very good. Chris, lanhee, good to see you. I was afraid i was going to to do you look weak or a monologue for an hour. That wouldve been something. Weve got repeal and replace ine wind, very polarized congress, polarized nation. All of this is impacting us a lot, so we thought it would make sense to go ahead and invite a couple of representatives one from the left, one from the right. So in terms of format, let me go ahead and provide introductions to these gentlemen that are probably pr