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In the U.S., the aging population has reached a historic milestone: more people are over 65 than under 15. Bioethicist Nancy Berlinger asks how our society can adapt and thrive together.

By 2030, one in every five Americans will be over 65, part of a global demographic shift driven by public health successes like clean water, vaccines, and medical advances that extend life expectancy. Paired with declining birth rates, these changes are reshaping our communities.

In this episode of The Big Question, bioethicist Nancy Berlinger explores the opportunities and challenges of an aging society: from closing the elder care workforce shortage to designing age-friendly communities that promote healthy aging and intergenerational connections. She also asks if assistive robotics in elder care could meet growing needs, inviting us to imagine a future where longer life comes with greater quality of life, and where we all age with dignity, together.

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Chapters:
00:00 – Living in an Aging Society
01:13 – What Is an Aging Society?
03:52 – Public Health Breakthroughs
06:42 – Caregiver Shortage
09:55 – Cultural Views on Care
13:26 – Cost of Caregiving
17:15 – Age-Friendly Design
20:53 – Midlife Planning
26:48 – Beyond “50 Forever”
29:47 – Funding Care
31:58 – Robots in Care
35:02 – Millennials & Aging
37:52 – Lessons from Disability
39:20 – Intergenerational Bonds

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Nancy Berlinger is a senior research scholar and fellow at The Hastings Center for Bioethics, where her work focuses on the ethical, societal, and global dimensions of population aging (Bioethics for Aging Societies), including dementia care and housing equity for older adults. She also examines ethical challenges in immigrant and community health, patient safety, and end-of-life and crisis care, with a cross-cutting interest in how shared narratives shape health, risk, and flourishing. Berlinger directs The Hastings Center’s Sadler Scholars initiative for doctoral students from underrepresented communities and teaches English at Lehman College, CUNY.

Insoo Hyun, PhD is the Director of the Center for Life Sciences and Public Learning at the Museum of Science, Boston. He received his BA and MA in Philosophy with Honors in Ethics in Society from Stanford University and his PhD in Philosophy from Brown University. Since 2005, Dr. Hyun has been heavily involved with the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), helping draft its international research guidelines and serving twice as the chair of the ISSCR Ethics Committee. Dr. Hyun’s research interests go well beyond stem cell ethics and policy to include emerging technologies in the life sciences and new strategies for community engagement in bioengineering.

Vardit Ravitsky, PhD is President and CEO of The Hastings Center, an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research center that is among the most influential bioethics and health policy institutes in the world. She is a part-time Senior Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and past Full Professor at the Bioethics Program, School of Public Health, University of Montreal.

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