May 8, 2023
THIS EPISODE OF GROWING OLDER LIVING YOUNGER focuses
on super aging - how to help transform longer lifespan into longer
healthspan via 7 A Pillars of longevity.
Today’s Featured Experts are David Cravit and
Larry Wolf, co-authors of “ SuperAging:
Getting Older Without Getting Old - A Boomers Guide to living well
after 65.
We discuss the 7 A’s of the Pillars of
Superaging, how default aging has been the - well- default, for
past generations and continues to be for many today. And how
social, cultural, political, and economic forces
oppose living younger longer.
Episode Timeline
0:11 Introduction to SuperAging
4:04 How did the idea for the book
come about?
8:19 Defining default-aging and super-aging, and the forces
underlying them
14:11
The 7 A Pillars of Super
Aging.
20:10 Attitude and awareness: the two core
pillars
27:47 Pillars 3 to 7 of SuperAging (Accomplishment, Achievement,
Autonomy, Attachment, Avoidance)
30:50
Social, cultural, political, and economic drivers that oppose super
aging.
33:34 Insidious issues about superaging: ageism, economic
fears
38:50 An
independent individual needs to take responsibility for their own
lives.
45:57 How to make sense of the
tsunami of information and misinformation flooding our media
platforms
50: 53 Larry and
David’s takeaways
from today’s episode.
Speaker Bios:
David Cravit earned his BA in Political Science and Economics from the
University of Toronto. He is author of two previous books on the
subject of aging. The New Old," which described how the Baby
Boomers are reinventing aging, and "Beyond Age Rage," which
examined the so-called “war of the generations” . David is an
executive at ZoomerMedia, the only media company in Canada
specializing in covering the “older” market. He is also a member of
the Board of C.A.R.P., the Canadian Association of Retired Persons,
the largest and most influential association advocating for the
rights and interests of Canadians as they
age.
Larry Wolf
has a BA in Psychology from Cornell University,
and an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania. Larry is the founder of the Wolf Group, an
international marketing communications agency with over 300
employees in seven cities throughout North America. Larry has
served on a number of boards, including the National Advertising
Review Board, the Huntsman program in international studies at the
University of Pennsylvania, the Eye Research Institute of Canada,
and has chaired the Canadian Glaucoma Research Society.
His special expertise is in identifying trends and
understanding how to capitalize on them.
Learn more about the work of David
Cravit and Larry Wolf here.
Link to the
book SuperAging: Getting Older Without
Getting Old, https://superaging.info/about-3/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcravit/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/larry-wolf-15a18a10/
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