Age Well

Attitudes Matter in a Graying World

 

A Report By

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Jim Rendon

Jim Rendon is a freelance writer who covers science, the environment, business and plenty of other topics. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and newspaper, Wall Street Journal, Time, Mother Jones, Marie Claire, Fortune, Men's Journal, SmartMoney and other publications. His most recent book, Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth, was published in 2015 by Touchstone.

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Olufemi Terry

Olufemi Terry was born in Sierra Leone. He grew up in Nigeria, Britain and Cote d'Ivoire before attending University in New York City. He holds a B.A. degree in Political Science, a Masters in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University's Tisch School and a Creative Writing M.A. from the University of Cape Town. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa, where he writes fiction and works as a freelance writer, analyst and editor of African political and economic trends.

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Heather Krause

Heather’s invaluable contribution included working with the Orb team to gather, prepare and analyze data. Heather is a professionally trained mathematical statistician with years of working on complex research problems for non-profit and NGO organizations. She is the founder and principal consultant at Datassist and has worked on every continent except Antarctica. She has a strong love of finding data, analyzing it in creative ways and using cutting edge visualization methods to visualize the results. Her emphasis is on combining strong statistical analysis with clear and meaningful communication.

 

Credits

Video Editors, Producers, and Camera:

Peder Jessen (All videos)

Keith Lane (All videos)

Kiki Tanaka

Yoko Ishitani

Futa Nagao (Photo no.3, Video no.3)

Daniela Broitman

Marcelo Martins (Photo no.4 no.9, Video no.1)

Asim Hafeez (Photo no.1, no.7, Video no.3)

Steven Wassenaar (Photo no.2)

Andreas Vingaard (Video no.2)

 

Translators and Copy Editors:

Siddhi Camila Lama

Dorian Friedman

Renata Johnson

Patricia Yakabe Malentaqui

Benan Grams

Samyah Alfoory

Camila González-Misas

Rey Rivera, M. Oscar Platero

Zeesha Shafi

Patricia Pringle

 

Original website design by Friendly Design Co.

 

Major research, photo, and video contribution by Lucian Perkins.