Fellowships Highlighted in Milken Institute Essay

Fellowships Highlighted in Milken Institute Essay

In a new essay series from the Milken Institute, Encore.org CEO Marc Freedman makes the case for Encore Fellowships as a win for companies and employees reaching retirement age alike. He explains why Encore Fellowships are a powerful model for the kinds of talent...
Make Room at The Table During the Holidays

Make Room at The Table During the Holidays

A 2017 Influencer in Aging asks: What wouldn’t you do for family? This essay was published previously by Next Avenue as part of a series of blogs written by winners of the 2017 Influencers in Aging Award. My mom was 22 when she left Taiwan. It was her first time...
The Talent Revolution: Longevity and the Future of Work

The Talent Revolution: Longevity and the Future of Work

Longer working lives are the most influential driver transforming today’s workplace. That’s the premise of a new book by Lisa Taylor and Fern Lebo called The Talent Revolution: Longevity and the Future of Work (Rotman-UTP Publishing, May 2019). “We wrote The Talent...

What do Yo Yo Ma and Oprah have in common?

Take a look at this two-minute video, and you’ll see. Thirteen well-known people, past and present, talk about longer lives, purpose and the potential people over 50 have to change the world. Talk about potential — in these challenging and divisive times, people...

AARP Purpose Prize: 2017 Winners Announced

The inaugural class of AARP Purpose Prize winners has been announced, along with a cohort of 2017 Purpose Prize fellows. The five Prize winners, including one winner of the Andrus Prize for Intergenerational Excellence, in honor of AARP’s founder, Dr. Ethel Percy...