Bill Kole: Super Aging At 100
EPISODE DESCRIPTION:
Bill Kole, author of THE BIG 100: The New World of Super Aging, recently retired as New England editor for The Associated Press but continues to work as an editor for Axios
By 2050, the world's centenarian population — those aged 100 or more — will increase eightfold. Whether we're 18 or 81, this tectonic demographic shift will affect us all.
Bill will discuss important questions of longevity including : How long can we live? How long should we live? And what happens when 65 is merely a life half-lived? The Big 100 explores the most pressing questions of our super-aging future and offers a glimpse of a reality that awaits us, our children, and our grandchildren.
ABOUT BILL KOLE
William J. Kole is an award-winning reporter, editor, and former foreign
correspondent who has reported from North America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle
East.A Massachusetts native, Kole studied journalism at Boston University and joined
The Associated Press in Detroit, where he covered Dr. Jack Kevorkian, his suicide
machine, and the spirited national conversation around individual end-of-life decisions.
Later, as an AP correspondent based in Paris, Amsterdam and Vienna, he covered some
major international stories, including the crash that killed Princess Diana, the death of
Pope John Paul II, and Kosovo’s independence. He speaks French, Dutch, and German.
Kole, who retired early in 2022 as AP’s New England editor, is a former fellow in
aging journalism at Columbia University in New York and the National Press
Foundation in Washington, D.C.