The publication release aligns with the Future of Aging name change to Future of Aging and Longevity

The Milken Institute today released a new publication, The Future of Aging and Longevity: A Decade of Progress, A Decade to Act, a collection of essays, expert commentary, and interviews exploring aging and longevity from more than 50 leaders across sectors and disciplines. The report brings together intergenerational perspectives, reflecting 10 years of progress in aging and longevity and outlining priorities and solutions for the decade ahead. The report is centered on four key themes—invest, build, shift, and connect—and functions as a working resource to offer a shared reference point for policy priorities; frameworks for redesigning retirement, workplaces, and education; models for integrated, whole-person care; evidence to support advocacy and program design for caregivers; and a map of where cross-sector investment can accelerate progress.

“This collection shows us that healthy, financially secure aging is shaped over a lifetime, and our systems and policies must scale what works and keep pace with new innovations,” said Diane Ty, managing director of the Milken Institute Future of Aging and Longevity. “Throughout this publication, we have paired voices from different generations to underscore that our nation’s readiness for longer lives spans generations, and solutions must be informed and carried out by people at every stage of life.”

Contributors include:

• Dan Buettner, Founder, Blue Zones LLC
• Michael Crow, PhD, President, Arizona State University
• Ken Dychtwald, PhD, Founder and CEO, Age Wave
• Myechia Minter-Jordan, MD, CEO, AARP
• Alan Patricof, Chairperson and Co-Founder, Primetime Partners
• Penny Pennington, Managing Partner, Edward Jones
• More than 40 additional leaders from organizations dedicated to aging contributed, including CoGenerate, the John A. Hartford Foundation, Meals on Wheels America, MIT AgeLab, National Council on Aging, Next50, The SCAN Foundation, Stanford Center on Longevity, TIAA Institute, and Transamerica Institute.

Designed as both a retrospective and a call to action for policymakers, industry, and nonprofit leaders, the report examines topics including scientific advancements, long-term care and caregiving, financial security in retirement, workforce participation among older adults, and the role of innovative finance in scaling solutions for an aging population. Additionally, the report features an introduction by Ty and Paul Irving, senior advisor of the Future of Aging and Longevity, and an afterword by Michael Milken, chairman of the Milken Institute.

The report launch coincides with the announcement that the Future of Aging is changing its name to the Future of Aging and Longevity. The addition of “Longevity” reflects an evolution in the portfolio’s work, addressing not only the challenges of an aging society but also the opportunities created by rising longevity, including advances in geroscience, changing workforce and retirement patterns, and the redesign of health and financial systems to serve people across longer lives. Since its founding in 2015, the Future of Aging and Longevity has worked to advance policies and practices that improve the health and financial well-being of an aging population.

“For many years we’ve worked to make aging a more central part of conversations about our health and retirement systems, and this new chapter shows how far that conversation has come,” said Ty. “Longevity is no longer a distant trend. It is reshaping health care, financial services, education, the workforce, and families today, and our new name reflects our commitment to helping leaders across all sectors act on that reality.”

The Future of Aging and Longevity will continue its mission to advance healthy aging and financial well-being across the life course through research, convenings, multisector partnerships, and the elevation of high-impact policies and practices.

For more information, visit https://milkeninstitute.org/health/future-aging.

Future of Aging and Longevity FAQ

What is A Decade of Progress, A Decade to Act?

A Decade of Progress, A Decade to Act is a report from the Milken Institute. This report reflects on a decade of progress in aging and longevity since the Institute’s 2016 Future of Aging report and explores the opportunities and challenges that will shape the next decade through expert commentary, essays, and interviews with members of the Future of Aging Advisory Board and other leaders who contributed to the publication.

What themes does the report explore?

Centered on four themes—invest, build, shift, and connect—the publication encourages policymakers, industry, philanthropy, and community leaders to consider the following:

• Invest in prevention, brain health, and financial resilience across the life course.
• Build systems, workplaces, and communities that support longer, healthier lives.
• Shift narratives and policies so longevity is an asset, not a liability, for individuals and societies.
• Connect sectors, generations, and disciplines to move from fragmented efforts to a true all-of-society approach.

Why did the Future of Aging and Longevity change its name?

The new name reflects the evolution of the aging and longevity field. The work has evolved from a focus on aging to a life-course perspective, reflecting evidence that the determinants of healthy longevity and financial well-being are shaped long before older adulthood.

About the Milken Institute

The Milken Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on accelerating measurable progress on the path to a meaningful life. With a focus on financial, physical, mental, and environmental health, we bring together the best ideas and innovative resourcing to develop blueprints for tackling some of our most critical global issues through the lens of what’s pressing now and what’s coming next. For more information, visit https://milkeninstitute.org/.

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