Join me for the 2025 Harvard Law Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, Law, Health Care, and the Aging Brain and Body on June 9, 2025. The complete schedule and livestream information is here. My own paper (like a few others) discusses newly expanded end-of-life options like MAID.
As people around the world live longer, existing systems for supporting older adults are facing increased stress. Social safety net programs face growing costs, family caregivers find themselves simultaneously caring for multiple generations, and health care systems face patients with increased complexity. Health care systems and political structures will need to adapt to this new reality. Current legal, policy, and regulatory approaches seem poorly matched to address these emerging issues.
Fortunately, new scientific understanding of the aging brain and body can guide lawmakers, health care professionals, and families as they respond to the challenges and opportunities posed by increased longevity.
This conference calls on participants to imagine how law, public policy, and health care entities can create systems that promote the well-being of older adults and their families in a world of enhanced longevity, and to suggest what lessons can be drawn from emerging scientific understandings of the aging brain and body.
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