“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of Technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.” Lyndon B Johnson 

Today we reflect on how our life on earth will be impacted, as declining birth rates and increased longevity drastically reshape population demographics. 

My guest today is Bradley Schurman, a demographic futurist and author of The Super Age: Decoding our Demographic Destiny. He is the founder and CEO of The Super Age, a research and advisory firm specializing in helping organizations understand the challenges, and harness the opportunities of demographic change with a focus on population Aging.  

As Bradley describes, for most of human history, populations have resembled pyramids with lots of kids on the bottom while relatively few people made it to old age. But declining birth rates, and increased longevity are starting to square off those  pyramids in the US, and most of Western Europe. In places like Japan, they’re actually inverting with very few young people at the bottom, and a lot of older people at the top. We discuss the potential impacts on life in the future..

Contact Bradley Schurman:

www.thesuperage.com https://www.facebook.com/TheSuperAge https://twitter.com/bradleyschurman https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyschurman/

Contact  Dr. Gillian Lockitch

https://linktr.ee/askdrgill  Email: askdrgill@gmail.comSchedule a complimentary Living Younger Discovery Call  at https://bit.ly/3LbWvSV

Order your copy of Growing Older Living Younger: The Science of Aging Gracefully and the Art of Retiring Comfortably at www.gillianlockitch.com

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Dr. Gillian Lockitch Dr. Gillian Lockitch

Dr. Gillian Lockitch is an international speaker, author of Growing Older, Living Younger: The Science of Aging Gracefully and The Art of Retiring Comfortably, and host of the Growing Older, Living Younger Podcast. As a dual-certified Specialist in Paediatrics and Medical Biochemistry and Professor at the University of British Columbia, her professional career was rooted in science. During her rehabilitation from life-saving emergency spinal surgery, her passion to be able to dance again led her to explore the intersection of medical and epigenetic science with non-Western healing traditions, to understand how to change aging at the cellular level. Within the Growing Older, Living Younger Project, the Change Your Aging Masterplan cycle is a year-long 3 part coaching program to preserve mind and brain, build your best body, and to survive and thrive in your environment. At 70 Dr. Lockitch became a first time entrepreneur, building a global online business with the premiere wellness and beauty company, to help others extend their healthspan, stay vibrant, active, and independent as they age. Now retired from medical practice, Dr. Lockitch is an empathetic coach and mentor but does not diagnose, treat or prescribe for medical diseases.