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Tips for college grads: How to retire rich  
“Invest in your career,” said Steve Vernon, a consulting research scholar at the Stanford Center on Longevity, Financial Security Division. “If you don’t have strong earnings, you won’t be able to save much money.

Read the full article at MarketWatch.

Video: Happiness Experts Provide Advice on Living to 100

U.S. News's e-book, How to Live to 100, contains money, health and happiness keys to more enriching and, possibly, longer lives. Three of the book's experts, including Laura Carstensen, a professor of psychology and director of the Stanford Center on Longevity recently got together and spoke about happiness.

Read the full article at U.S. News and World Report.

Living Longer Than Ever: Is That a Good Thing?

The good news: We’re living longer than ever. The bad news: We’re living longer than ever. In an oversimplified way, that was the message from Laura Carstensen, director of Stanford University’s Center on Longevity, in her remarks to this year’s Aging in America conference.

Read the full article at AARP.

L.A. population will be much older, more settled, study says  
The future of Los Angeles will be a grayer one, as aging boomers, slowing immigration and shrinking birthrates radically change the face of the county, a new study from USC predicts. “Can we give tax incentives for people to make their homes age-friendly?” asked Adele Hayutin, Director of Demographic Analysis at the Stanford Center on Longevity. “Should it become the standard?”

Read the full article at Los Angeles Times.