The Longevity RevolutionThe Benefits & Challenges of Living a Long LifeA pioneering, Pulitzer Prize-winning doctor reflects on the recent unprecedented leap in human life expectancy - and what we must do to take advantage of it. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Why Survive: Being Old in America and founder, president and CEO of the International Longevity Center-USA (ILC-USA), Dr. Robert Butler coined the term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years. As Butler shows, our society has not yet adapted to this change. | |
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Listen to Dr. Butler on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show
Dr. Butler spoke to guest host Katty Kay on National Public Radio's The Diane Rehm Show earlier this morning. In case you weren't able to catch it (or even if you were), NPR has made recordings and a transcript of the show. Click on any of the links below:
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For more than 25 years, The Diane Rehm Show has offered listeners thoughtful and lively conversations on an array of topics with many of the most distinguished people of our times, including former president Bill Clinton, General Tommy Franks, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Julie Andrews, and Toni Morrison. Newsweek magazine calls the program one of the most interesting talk shows in the country.
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