Healthy Aging

Older man in a wheelchair with a mask

In a recent podcast, I had the opportunity to speak with Marylou Sudders, the Secretary of Health and Human Services for Massachusetts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But COVID was only part of what she faced during her eight-year term. Sudders pointed out that Massachusetts has an older population than most states and by 2050 almost a…

Map of Japan made out of people

The graphic below (Figure 1) of the oldest societies in the world – from Visual Capitalist – is both striking and somewhat misleading. Monaco is far older than any other country, no doubt because you have to be old and rich to afford to live there. Many of the other places on the list are tropical island…

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