Resources
Key Messages
Chapter 1: Preparing for the Journey
A longer road means more opportunity and risk.
Money is only a fraction of wealth.
In uncharted territory, use a guide.
Chapter 2: Make the Most of Your 100-Year Opportunity
Think bigger as you get older.
With big goals, start sooner than you are ready.
Always plan, but never predict.
More people are living and retaining health longer, changing the trajectory and costs associated with aging
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Chapter 3: Life Transitions Are a Feature Not a Bug
We don't know what the next thirty days will bring, let alone the next thirty years.
We can still make plans, provided we never stop updating them.
We can't take the right path if we don't define what right means specifically for us.
Life trajectories will be more jagged, and the focus will be on optimizing for and adapting to each stage.
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Chapter 4: Align Healthspans to Lifespans
Health is a currency of its own, and we can't afford to run out of it too soon.
Maintaining good health is not easy, but it is straightforward.
Get insured. Also, get insured.
Societal disparities in accommodation, education, and nutrition mean that healthy old age is not a given for many.
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Chapter 5: Learn Throughout Life
Education is future income.
Skills beat book knowledge.
College is no longer the be-all and end-all.
Learning must be more flexible to meet the needs of tomor row: less front-loaded and less tethered to formal institutions.
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Chapter 6: Work More Years, with More Flexibility
Life flourishes in the gaps-more gaps are good.
The path to happiness is seldom straight.
Cash lets you make big moves faster.
Work lives will be less sequential, more flexible, and more spread out.
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Chapter 7: Build Financial Security from the Start
No one is coming to save you, nor do you need them to.
Getting rich is no trick if you follow the rules (and start early).
Assume a long life and spend down your portfolio accordingly.
Financial planning is no longer just about funding retirement, but for all life stages.
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Chapter 8: Invest in Future Centenarians to Deliver Big Returns
Early education is for life, not for college.
The most impactful education comes before school years begin.
Sometimes it takes two generations to raise a third
Investing early in childhood education and health is critical to realizing the potential of greater longevity.
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Chapter 9: Age Diversity Is a Net Positive for Societies-and the Bottom Line
Knowledge expires, but wisdom endures.
An age-diverse household is (potentially) more robust.
Non-young workers are not better, or worse, just different.
Tomorrow's multigenerational families and workplaces have unique synergies that can and should be utilized.
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Chapter 10: Build Longevity-Ready Communities
Housing can seriously affect your health.
Most housing is not old-age friendly, but can be made so.
Elder care is complicated. Paranoia is your friend.
New infrastructure is needed to combat societal barriers, inadequate facilities, and the effects of climate change.
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Chapter 11: Prepare to Be Amazed by the Future of Aging
Radical innovation is unpredictable and happens fast.
Be open to ideas and closed to treatments (until proven).
Live life as if it were always getting longer.
Numerous technologies are decreasing the likelihood and cost of age-related health conditions.
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