In this week’s 4-Quarter Lives, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox talks with Dr Julie Miller, Director of Thought Leadership, Financial Resilience, at the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). Dr Miller seeks to propel new conversations and cultivate partnerships that will challenge the status quo of longevity and empower people to have the financial and economic stability to live longer, healthier lives.
Prior to joining AARP, Julie Miller spent a decade as a social science researcher at the MIT AgeLab, where she led translational social science research across key topical areas of longevity planning, caregiving and wellbeing, housing and home logistics, and transportation and livable communities. As a Rappaport Public Policy Fellow through Harvard University’s Rappaport Institute, Dr. Miller supported the Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs in its administration of the nation’s first statewide Governor’s Council to Address Aging. She served as a lecturer and program founder and coordinator at Northeastern University, Boston University, and UC Berkeley and produced two documentary films centering “Vibrant Aging.”
Dr. Miller work has appeared in The New York Times, Barron’s, Rethinking65, CNBC, Innovation in Aging, The Journal of Financial Planning, The Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Families in Society, The Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, The Journal of Gerontological Social Work, Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, The Journal of Workplace and Behavioral Health, and numerous edited books. She received her doctorate of philosophy in social work at Boston College, her masters in social work with a concentration in gerontology from The University of California, Berkeley, and her bachelors of science from Northeastern University, where she studied Human Services and American Sign Language.
Some Useful Links:
The reports Julie describes and other resources can be found at aarpinternational.org
An Analysis of Governmental Plans for Healthy Aging from Around the WorldThe Business Case for Healthy Longevity Workbook
Julie Miller: Women 50+: Drivers of the Global Economy