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“Brian Health and Aging Positively” Laura K.M. Donorfio, Ph.D.

CEA-Retired Fall Issues Conference. “Brian Health and Aging Positively” Laura K.M. Donorfio, Ph.D. September 11, 2012. 1. GOALS FOR TODAY. “Brain Health and Aging Positively” How Aging is Making History How this Impacts You and the World

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“Brian Health and Aging Positively” Laura K.M. Donorfio, Ph.D.

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  1. CEA-Retired Fall Issues Conference “Brian Health and Aging Positively” Laura K.M. Donorfio, Ph.D. September 11, 2012 1

  2. GOALS FOR TODAY • “Brain Health and Aging Positively” • How Aging is Making History • How this Impacts You and the World • How “Protecting” Your Brain can Enhance Brain Health Positive Aging Role Models

  3. OPENING HUMOR

  4. AGING IS MAKING HISTORY For the first time in human history, we are living longer than ever before and the rate of growth of the older population is unprecedented! Longevity Revolution Individuals Are Getting Older The World Is Getting Older

  5. Life Expectancy Has Increased 28 78.2 47.3 31.3 5

  6. Life Expectancy Has Increased • By 2017—1 in 5 in U.S. will be 65+ • Florida is already there! • Italy, Japan, & Germany are already there! By 2017, the United States will be a giant state of Florida!

  7. Life Expectancy Around the World U.S. 48th in world Source: United Nations 2010 7

  8. Documented – World’s Oldest Jeanne Calment 122 years and 164 days France Christian Mortensen 115 years 252 days United States

  9. Documented – World’s Oldest Still Living Maria Gomes Valentim 115 years & counting Lives: Brazil Born: July 9, 1896 Jiroemon Kimura 114 years & counting Lives: Japan Born: April 19, 1897 9

  10. CENTENARIANS—100+ • Fastest Growing Age Group Worldwide • 450,000 Worldwide • 76,000 in U.S.; 4 million by 2050 • 80% are Women • 78% are White & 16% African American • Married: 1 in 25 Women & 1 in 4 Men • Super-Centenarians: 100 Worldwide Get a letter from President on your 100th birthday!

  11. Aging Pyramid—450,000 worldwide 2050 Reach Upwards to 4 Million

  12. CAN WE LIVE FOREVER… Scientists— Robert Butler ….believes in the next 50-100 years we can live to 150 Graham Pawelek ….believes in the next 50-100 years we can live to 200 “Aging is just a series of diseases.”

  13. What Does It Mean To Be An Older Adult Today? How Will Aging Change the Way We Live? We Are Not Quite Sure! 13

  14. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL LEVEL? “Our general confusion is compounded by a new kind of ignorance. Until late in this century, we humans spent time with people of all generations, but today we aren’t likely to have much contact with old people until we are relatively old ourselves.” Mary Pipher Another Country 14

  15. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL LEVEL? “The trouble is, old age is not interesting until one gets there. It’s a foreign country with an unknown language to the young and even to the middle-aged.” May Sarton As We Are Now

  16. Why is Aging a Foreign Country? • Added decades to life • Healthier than ever before • “50 is the new 40” (Google: 5 million hits) • Age is no longer used as a marker of where and what you should be doing in life • Retirement? Leisure? Grandparenthood? • Ageism & Negative Stereotypes

  17. Healthcare Road Structure Leisure Activities Older Workforce How will Aging Impact the World? Housing Needs Transportation Assisted Living Building Structure Social Security Euthanasia Young & Old Competing for Resources Law Reform Government/Policy Making Progress TOTAL IMPACT Medicare Caregiving

  18. Gerontology Making Progress • Stages Age • Young Adulthood 18-34 • Middle Adulthood 35-54 • Young Old 55-69 • Middle Old 70-84 • Old Old 85-99 • Centenarians 100-109 • Super-Centenarians 100+ 18

  19. Writers Making Progress “Third Chapter”—Life After 50

  20. “Pop Culture” Making Progress Mrs. Beasley Grandma Barbie

  21. Neuroscience Making Progress

  22. Neuroscience & Brain Health • Has made tremendous strides in understanding the capacity for brain plasticity… • “The ability of the brain to change with learning” Discovered a connection between brain health and life style

  23. Neuroscience & Brain Health 1/3 Genetics Risk for Brain Aging 2/3 Lifestyle Choices

  24. Neuroscience & Brain Health

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