As I slip into summer blog mode, with shorter, more light-headed subject matter featuring historical and whimsical icons of longevity, here I pay tribute to one of Canada’s great resources in the ageing and longevity space – the National Institute on Ageing (NIA) one of the fourteen research centres of the Ted Rogers School of
“Optimizing Health Span: Living Well at Every Age.” When you follow an event in its inaugural year, as I did in 2013/14 with the first Stanford Longevity Design Challenge, there is no sense of how well it will take off – and now like a flash, it’s the 10th Anniversary! This year’s theme
With so many meaningful social causes in the world, including those that speak to specific populations, it seems we have reached an abundance of national and international awareness days, or month-long recognitions, all at once in competition for our attention and sadly forgotten once a media cycle move on. No exception is this month, so
Because so many books that capture my other areas of interest is reaching a stack more like a tower, I’m getting a jump early, in this my fifth year heading into the summer months, with my suggested title for “booking up” in the subject area of ageing and longevity. Since 2001, my library of books