Stanford longevity summit stresses necessity of community connections as we grow older

by Susan Nash, Bay City News November 8, 2023February 11, 2024

A man bowls solo on July 11, 2013. Despite what longevity experts emphasize as the importance of people building and maintaining supportive social communities as we age, researches like Harvard professor Robert Putnam, author of the book "Bowling Alone," have documented how group activities and social connections have been declining for decades, threatening individual health along with our nation's democracy. (Roger DeWitt/Flickr, CC BY)

Speakers at the Century Summit at Stanford University this year raised a recurring theme: We are all in this together.

The two-day event, co-sponsored by the Stanford Center on Longevity (SCL), the Longevity Project, and the Aspen Institute’s Financial Security Program, focused on the “big ideas” needed to address life expectancies that, according to SCL founding director Laura Carstensen, have increased by 30 years in the last century.

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