SCF Recommends
Many current events, publications, movies, websites and more deserve our attention as we contemplate our aging, and as we age. The SCF gives you a heads-up on some of these on this web page that is frequently updated.
“Physicians Aim to Improve End-of-Life Cancer Care”
In this webcast of a PBS newshour segment, cancer patient Judy Freedman speaks movingly about how she came to accept her own death and where she found help. Read more...
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“My Stroke of Insight”
In this webcast Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist recounts her amazing experience of suffering a massive stroke. Read more...
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TED
A website dedicated to spreading great ideas. Every year, TED’s annual conference challenges 50 of the world’s top thinkers to give the talk of their life in just 18 minutes. Read more...
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The Brain Fitness Program
Watch public television’s fascinating exploration of neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to continue adapting and changing over a lifetime. Read more...
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Creating Aging-Friendly Communities
Most communities aren’t prepared for the fact that their population of older adults will double over the next 25 years. This website held a conference, completely online, with presentations by some 30 experts in aging and community development. Read more...
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“Bending the Curve: Options for Achieving Savings and Improving Value in U.S. Health Spending”
This report reviews 15 federal policy options that have been suggested as ways to reduce health care spending in the U.S. Read more...
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When I Am Old With You
By Angela Johnson, illustrated by David Soman. Orchard Books, 1990. In this is a book for children 4 to 7 years old a child imagines what it will be like when she catches up in age with her beloved “Grandaddy” and they can sit, side by side, in their rocking chairs and talk about everything.
Young@Heart
Two dozen members of the internationally known mixed chorus of singers and band members, all 70 years old and above, rehearse for a concert tour while getting on with their lives in this funny, deeply moving documentary. Read more...
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“The Visitor.”
“The Visitor” is a poignant film about a middle-aged economics professor who has lost all interest in his work and his life until he meets a young, Syrian musician and his Senegalese girlfriend. Read more...
“The Future of Alzheimer's: Breakthroughs and Challenges”
Webcast of a hearing before the Aging Committee of the U.S. Senate, May 14, 2008. Read more...
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Our Mission
The Silver Century Foundation promotes a positive view of aging. The Foundation challenges entrenched and harmful stereotypes, encourages dialogue between generations, advocates planning for the second half of life, and raises awareness to educate and inspire everyone to live long, healthy, empowered lives.
"Adding years to people's lives through the magic of science and medicine, however impressive, is an insufficient ambition for American Society. Our objective, must be to add new life to those years."
President John F. Kennedy, 1961 White House Conference on Aging