The Challenges and Opportunities of an Aging Society
In celebration of Older Americans Month, you are cordially invited to the inaugural signature lecture series on aging with featured speaker, Dr. John Rowe, eminent gerontologist, professor and author. Read more.
Dramatic increases in life expectancy and aging of the baby boom are rapidly converting the United States into an Aging Society. While much attention has been paid on how individuals can manage their life styles to age successfully, we must now consider how best to re-engineer America’s core societal institutions, such as education, work, retirement, leisure, and health care to assure that our society can support the future elderly population.
John W. Rowe, M.D. is the Julius B. Richmond Professor of Health Policy and Aging at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Previously Dr. Rowe served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc., one of the nation’s leading health care and related benefits organizations. Before his tenure at Aetna, Dr. Rowe served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mount Sinai NYU Health, one of the nation’s largest academic health care organizations. Prior to Mount Sinai’s merger with NYU, Dr. Rowe was President of the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Before joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Rowe was a Professor of Medicine and the founding Director of the Division on Aging at the Harvard Medical School, as well as Chief of Gerontology at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital. He was Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging and is co-author, with Robert Kahn, Ph.D., of Successful Aging. Currently, Dr. Rowe leads the MacArthur Foundation’s Network on An Aging Society
