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Foreword by Baroness Ros Altmann Authors Preface The Methuselah Manifesto - whose problem is it anyway? 1 - The Work-Life revolution PART ONE - LIVING LONGER 2 - Your rude health is getting ruder 3 - How long will you live? PART TWO - WORKING LONGER 4 - You will be working longer 5 - Your brilliant career PART THREE - THE NEW RULES 6 - Your camel-hump career 7 - Lifelong learning 8 - Lifelong living 9 - Conclusions and the 11 rules |
There are eleven new rules of living longer...
My Mum, Doreen, has a 1 in 9 chance of living to 100. I have 1 in 5. My daughter, Gemma, has a 1 in 4 chance, and her daughter Phoebe, has better odds than 1 in 3. See how these four generations of women fare in the living longer stakes, compared with the men of the family and how technology plays its part for all generations. Explore the new rules of living longer - how to survive your longer life, and get a grip on how to live happily ever after. Rule #1 Living Longer = Working Longer But how much longer? What will work look like? How will this be different for my children, and their children? Will a robot take my job, or care for me in later life? How about both? Rule #2 Technology + Demographic Change = Life as We Don't Know it Yet The nature of work itself is changing. Plural careers will become the norm, including making money from your sidelines and hobbies Rule #4 Learn from a four year old For Phoebe, the iPad means that her shared learnings are no longer limited to the things she has direct experience of. It isn't bound by how much glue, glitter or noise we can tolerate - the edges of learning are now boundless, and could (should) be lifelong for all of us. Rule #8 Women will face a tougher challenge Women live longer than men. Financially you might already be 40% worse off. Why? How do you get back on track? |