(From left to right): Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Chair of Senate Committee on Aging; Dr. Laura Carstensen, Founding Director of Stanford Center on Longevity; Kim McCoy Wade, Director of the California Department of Aging; Hannah Matthews, Deputy Executive Director for Policy at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)
a longevity project virtual panel discussion
September 22, 2021
Social Infrastructure and the New Map of Life
How will programs and investments ranging from early childhood education to aging services contained in the $3.5 trillion social infrastructure package contribute to making longer life healthier, more productive, and more equitable? On September 22, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), chair of the Senate Committee on Aging, joined the Longevity Project for a conversation on the Congressional deliberations, followed by a discussion with Dr. Laura Carstensen, Founding Director of Stanford Center on Longevity; Kim McCoy Wade, Director of the California Department of Aging; and Hannah Matthews, Deputy Executive Director for Policy at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) on how social infrastructure can help support a New Map of Life.
Read our analysis of the longevity challenges the Biden Administration faces in the wake of the pandemic here.