How can we manage the inevitable march of time? Active Aging Think Tank member Dr. Leonard Marcus, founding director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution and founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at the Harvard School of Public Health, explores the factors that can ease the discussions and decision making needed to help people age well in society and concludes that managing the transition to old age can be simply a matter of ‘renegotiation.’
The article explores the challenges associated with aging and the factors that can take place on both a personal and a societal level to help us age well.
Dr. Marcus outlines the work of the Philips Active Aging Think Tank and explains that identifying the various stages of aging and the life transitions that occur with each is key to charting how policy makers, families, businesses and individuals themselves can build systems to ease the aging process.
Read The Age for Renegotiation article