Stanford longevity panel highlights need for lifelong learning to support longer work lives

THE OLD MODEL — work until you’re 65, retire, golf, die — is gone. With average life expectancy having increased by 30 years over the last century, people need to think differently about work. And that means thinking differently about learning.

That was the message at the Century Summit VI conference sponsored by the Stanford Center on Longevity and The Longevity Project, “Longevity, Learning and the Future of Work,” on Tuesday and Wednesday. The conference featured panels of experts from academia, business, nonprofits, media, and government considering radical ways to provide the lifelong learning that people will need to navigate longer work lives.