just aging. it's about healthy aging. >> hmm. >> i teach people how to age gracefully and successfully, which means being mentally sharp at any age, especially the cherished golden years of retirement. and, yes, that can be achieved today, because science now knows that we can grow new brain cells and rewire our brain at any age. >> that's fascinating. i mean, really. so, tell me what has changed in the field of neuroscience, dr. coles. i mean, brain aging and memory loss are so much in the news these days. in fact, i recently read that the u.s. government has now made solving memory loss one of its core missions. why is that? why is it so important? >> well, the reason is that we've made great strides in the past 20 years in extending the life-span of the body, but we now face a daunting reality that, for many of us, means that our brains may give out before our body does. this is a very real prospect and why i devote a good deal of my research to unlocking the secrets of healthy brain aging. an

their self worth as we continue to age. know that seniors fear losing their independence to handle their own finances or becoming a burden to their children or even ending up in a nursing home. these are really very real fears associated with mental decline and people really do feel helpless and sometimes hopeless. >> i hear this every day from patients in my medical office. they don't realize there are simple things that can be done like taking procera avh daily to help slow and even stop their mental decline and stay mentally sharp even in their later years. >> it's sad, doctor. so many people suffer in silence, unaware that for many, there are natural solutions to their memory loss. >> that's right. being mentally sharp means you have control of your life. we joke about letting the children eventually take over, but really it's about being independent as long as we possibly can and playing a meaningful role in the lives of our family and friends. that's where the real joy is. >> dr. bresky, tell us how your four pillars

that old age dependency ratio. when we have too many retirees and too many workers that is when we get into economic problems. that is what is driving social security problems. fewer workers and more retirees. so each worker has to support more retirees. and it is scheduled to run out of money 15 years away. >> host: what is happening to generation xy and so on? their future's are questionable? >> yes. they probably will have better retirement outcomes than the generations that come behind them. i say that because for people born in 1960 and later, some of them are baby boomers but they are facing the retirement age of 67 versus 65-66 and retirees today. so less social security benefits for them. we had a long period of wage stagnation. the median wage in the country has been flat since 1980 for men at least. women have seen some gains and that is a good sign. but men have slow growth in wages and people are not able to save. the baby boomers have pensions which is rare for younger folks. so the real challenge is a

i taught it was at any age. thanks for clearing that up >> any time. >> you have a future at nih or the rand corporation. >> thank you to these witnesses and the panel from nih and grateful for you allowing us to have the hearing today. i found it useful and appreciate the folks into the audience and across the country who are observing this hearing. we understand how important this issue is in a direct way and we want to continue our efforts to work together to find a cure for provide hope to the american people. on a much more pedestrian matter senator collins asked she have a statement be made part of the record and i would ask unanimous consent. >> and i join my colleagues for thanking you and thanks were the great leadership at nih. thank you for your leadership and all of you who are here today. i know a lot of you came a great distance. i want you to know this is an issue we are serious about. we have to find the funding for. we have to make sure we have a steady stream of funding. this up and down can't

as our population ages the number of people diagnosed after the age of 65 will double every five years while the number of individuals 85 years and older with the disease will triple by 2015. already alzheimer's is the sixth leading cause of death in the united states and there is currently no cure, no diagnostic test, no treatment. with the baby boomer generation aging alzheimer's disease becomes more prevalent than the need to confront the pending health care crisis has become ever more urgent. as you indicated the study by rand indicated the cost of dementia will double surpassing health care expenses for heart disease and cancer. alzheimer's disease defined at generation but if we focus our priorities on our research capacity it does not need to continue to be an inevitable part of the aging process. for every $27 medicare and the kids spends caring for individual alzheimer's the federal government only spends $1 on alzheimer's research. in fiscal year 2014 the on the misappropriation bill provided for an increase in the way you describe for 1 civilian dollars for alzheimer's resea

aging is a trend we have seen for some time.surprising think seeing that shift for the younger ages are protected to be slightly lower than our older population, that was a finding that was interesting. host: jennifer ortman with the senses bureau and richard johnson with the urban institute. thank you to both of you. that is it for our program today. another addition of "washington journal" comes your way tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m., see you then. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] ♪ >> the asian american journalists association is hosting its annual convention here in washington this week. coming up this morning at 11:00 eastern, we will take you there live

we continue the fourart series called ageing in america. in partwo tonight, we look at the impact what a rapidly ageing population would have on the u.s. health care system. meg terrell has the story. >> reporter: for the next 15 years, the baby boomer generation will turn 65 at a rate of about 10,000 every day and with older age come more health issues, conditions like high blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis and diabetes. >> it's estimated over 90% of seniors have at least one chronic disease. in fact, 77% have two or more. >> reporter: and the pharmaceutical incust industdus explaining. there are the top 15 diseases affecting seniors. more than double the number ten years ago. >> there is no question that diseases that affect the elderly around the world, actually, are the fastest growing and some of the most difficult in the system and of course, we believe medicines and pharmaceuticals can make a difference for those patients. >> reporter: dave ricks leads the unit at eli lilly. he says much of the focus is medicine for the ageing

not necessarily young, or middle age, you know, but all age, what their needs are. what, in a sense, new york city. i had a kind of strange relationship with -- always with new york city. was total love affair in the beginning, in the '70s. then retreat. and then kind of conservatives of politics and the real estate and business came. and now i am again kind of fighting for the justice for the city, to open the city for the artists, you know, for art education for kids, you know. and minorities, and adult education, education per se. you know, it's just very important. that's the future of our country. >> yeah. since you referenced it, tell me more about the work that you're doing or hope to do through your center. >> well, we were trying to open possibilities for young people who are -- want to be artists, from art colleges, from the young choreographers, the young people who dream to become playwright and photographer, artist. musician. we are giving opportunity for workshops, cooperative processes. we work with the different -- it's international center. we work

why put yourself through that at this age? >> actually the question, travis, is why not put yourself through it. really. the question about everything in life particularly when you get to be 76 is why not put yourself through it. i think the danger of my generation and certainly some of my colleagues is oh i've been there i've done that. why bother. but my feeling now at this age, and i'm lucky, i'm healthy. i'm in relatively good shape is if i don't do it now when am i going to do it? and also lear presented something to me that i felt was universal in everybody, which is, who are you when you take your crown? you know, who are you? because we all wear crowns of some kind. either of a movie star or a famous athlete or i'm this and i know you love me because of my crown. but the whole play is about a man who says i don't want to be king anymore. but i want all of you, my daughters to tell me that you love me and how much you love me and how much you are going to keep loving me. and he discovers that it wasn't him they loved at

she was raped at the age of 13 and then she had kevin at the age of 14. >> it was an assault by the stepfatherch ultimately produced kevin stoeser nine months later. >> mr. stoeser had by all accounts a difficult upbringing. his relationships with other individuals in his home were quite strained. >> i went to school with him, lived down the street. he was just kind of a geeky, different, you know, didn't stand out but didn't fit in. but he was a stoeser. everybody liked the stoesers, you know? >> march of 1994, he joined the army as an infantryman, and he actually excels and promotes quickly. within a matter of a couple of years he is already promoted up the ranks to sergeant. in early 1996, while he was stationed in ft. hood, texas, he saw a young lady who at the time was 16 years old. they struck up a relationship and just under a year, they actually got married. a month or two later, she actually ends up giving birth to their daughter. >> his wife was a juvenile. he was 24 years old. he was committing a crime. he was breaking the law and had to get her parents to give him special permissio

a rapidly ageing population. dominic chu has the story. >> reporter: when it comes to retirement, more americans are choosing to control more of their own destiny including how they want to live out days as they get older. long gone are the days staying with your kids and grandkids was the only option. >> we have services that address not oy the senior but his or her spouse, family, care giver, to give them the support they need. so that they know they are not alone in taking care of the senior. >> reporter: of course, as the demographics of our nation change, so will the companies that stand to benefit. senior living communities like this are gaining in popularity as companies look to capitalize on the ageing population. among the biggest companies in america that provide senior living communities are brooke dale and america's corp. the two companies are in the process of merging, that combo would be the biggest owner and operator of senior housing with nearly 113,000 units in over 1100 communities. shares of bo

tonight we begin a four-part series, aging in america. all that and the return of suzie on nightly business report. >>> good evening, everyone, yes, i'm back. topping our news tonight. another positive day on wall street. as investors were able to look past the russian/ukraine conflict and the escalating tensions in iraq. good news, right? not for many investors, they're puzzled before how and why stocks can keep going up, avoiding the correction that so many have predicted after a five-year bull run. with political turmoil and economic uncertainty all around the world. the rise in equities has confounded the experts. here's how the major averages ended today's session. the dow rose 16 points, the nasdaq up 30 and the s&p 500 added five points. >>> unnatural, that's how mark luschini describes the stock market that hasn't experienced a 10% pull back in three years. so would investors be on firmer footing if there had been a wicked selloff or two? mark luschini joins us now as well as jack abalon. mark, let me start with you. do we need a

nest egg. -64 age group, 24%. in total, 36% of americans have not put aside a time for retirement. today says "perhaps unsurprisingly, young americans are the least prepared, with 69% of the 18-29 age group having no retirement savings. "the key to aays successful retirement is to save early and aggressively." turning to the middle east, israeli and palestinian negotiators in the egypt-mediated gaza talks hard their positions today. this ahead of the expiration of a five-day cease-fire. the month-long israel-hamas war has killed more than 1900 ofestinians, the majority them civilians, according to palestinian and u.s. officials. israel has lost 67 people, all but three of them soldiers. the current five-day cease-fire is due to end late today. hasun security council scheduled a meeting for this morning. watch it on c-span or listen to it on c-span radio at 10:00 a.m. eastern. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> this month, c-span present debates on what makes america great. geneticallynd mod

age. here, i'd like to look at the per diem budget. over the last, at least five years, each year the department of corrections has been given a reduced budget. so we have this budget that is continuing to be reduced. we have the mandated constitutional health care that we have to provide. we are continuously having an intake of chronic illness which includes those women that come into our population pregnant and we're responsible for the prenatal care and delivery and they would be high risk so all of the services that we are required to pride, we're having to get very creative in the strategies that we use in order to provide that necessary mandated health care. the covered population that you see listed below represents the population that's covered in our general population. we have probably about 6,000 inmates who are housed in what we call private prisons. they have several prisons within our state that take it so that the cost for that does not come out of our per diem there. so, ag

again, robin williams at the age of 63 found dead. this according to the marin county sheriff's office. that information which has come across to us over the last hour or so, four and a half hours ago is what we understand from the assistant deputy chief coroner. 11:55 a.m. pacific time. they received a 911 call. it's then only a matter of five minutes later that the tibro fire department and other officials arrived and pronounced a male subject at 12:02, two minutes after they arrived. identified as robin williams, dead on the scene. the investigation into the cause as well as the circumstances of the death is under way. though according to preliminary information that they have gathered during the investigation so far is that he has been last seen at his residence around 10:00 p.m. last night. this is the cause of asphyxiation and suicide. this according to marin county sheriffs. >> what does asphyxiation mean? did he hang himself? >> we don't have the details here, james. that's why we are waiting for more information coming from t

bi-looring the age and -- by lowering age. >> raising the age. >> you you are right. one of the things that is shocking me the most was i was in the 7-eleven the other day and one of the convenience stores and they had the age limit. you have to be this old to buy cigarettes. and the year is so recent that i never felt so old. >> 90% of people start smoking before they are 21. 89% of those started smoking before they were 18. you are making no sense. on my 18th birthday at 12:01 i went to the store to buy my first legal pack of cigarettes. the man didn't even card me. i walked out of the store so depressed and mad and angry that i threw the cigarettes in the trash and went to another store so i could get carded. if they are gonna smoke they are gonna smoke and you can't do anything about it. people be responsible. >> e-cigarettes. >> it is like with alcohol. it is ridiculous -- it is the old thing. you can vote at 18 and you can be -- well we don't have a draft. >> not really. >> if we did you could be drafted. you should be able to drink and smoke. you kids out there

she was part of the golden age of hollywood.ng as a teenage model in new york she was hired to work in the humphrey bogart film "to have and have not." she was famous for her fashion style and sultry voice. she died today in new york at the age of 89. >>> also today, on the day police reveal how he died, fans of robin williams are flocking to the areas where he gave so many joy. right here where ""mrs. doubtfire" was filmed. at at and t park, a tribute is planned. we begin with mark matthews on the latest in

lauren bacall died at the age of 89. she became an international star after acting alongside humphrey bogart, who became her husband and she went on to win an oscar in 2009. we are going to start with that news just coming in. france has announced that it is going to supply weapons to iraq in the coming hours. that decision was announced from the president's office and is said to be in agreement with baghdad. weapons will be given to kurdish fighters. the president said the situation in iraq requires the mobilization of the international community and recognizes that france was willing to play an active role. they have been battling an extremist groups -- the extremist group isis for many months now. the u.s. has launched airstrikes to try to limit the advance of isis. and they have sent 130 troops to try to assess the situation. we joined -- we are joined from herbal --erbil, a northern iraqi town. we have just heard that france will send weapons. has that news trickled through yet capital >> -- through yet? >> it has j

what age do you feel? ruthy stahl: i feel about 52. ( laughs ) not really. >> stahl: what they have in common, other than having lived a combined total of almost 400 years, is that, decades ago, they all lived in a retirement community called leisure world 45 miles south of los angeles. >> hi, there, and welcome to leisure world, a new way of life designed for alert and active people 52 years or older who want to get the most out of life. >> stahl: today, it's still a retirement community, and they're still getting the most out of life, though it's no longer called leisure world. it's now its own city, laguna woods. >> claudia kawas: they didn't like the words "leisure world." ( laughs ) they consider themselves active. >> stahl: "active world." >> kawas: "active world." >> stahl: dr. claudia kawas spends a lot of time in laguna woods these days. she's a neurologist and professor at nearby u.c. irvine, who discovered the research equivalent of gold here-- information gathered from thousands of leisure worl

the age that is had onset. and you couple that with the factor there is not a single treatment out there to prevent, cure or stop alzheimer's disease. and you know there is a lot of other things going on that we will get to in the next 45 minutes around the lack of funding or less money going toward funding for alzheimer's research compared to other diseases to help push along the research side of it. a lack of awareness. a hot of people associate it with grandparents and grandma lost her memory and started to f forget things. you don't just lose your wallet. you lose the ability to talk, walk, dress yourself, feed yourself, brush your teeth. and it is a fatal. there a lot of misconceptions out there and by raising awareness we can help raise families. >> host: here are numbers. five million americans are living with the disease and every 67 seconds. we have a line for those impacted by there disease. and we have the lines otherwise divided for republicans (202) 585-3881 and (202) 585-3880 and all others 202-58

. >> translator: it's an age of globalization.even at a tiny school like ours, we should equip our children with the ability to communicate with others. >> reporter: since then, more children from outside the district have started to enroll to these boys are among them. every morning their mother drives them to school. they both don't seem to mind a half-hour journey by car. it gives them time to practice more. 8-year-old hironi tries to share what he's learned so far. >> how big? big? >> yes. red and yellow and green or blue. >> i don't know. what is it? >> it's a signal. >> a signal! >> he shared with me a reason why he wants to improve his english. he says his father has been living in thailand for and he wants to help his mother get by. when they visit >> translator: my mother cannot speak english very well. that's why i am studying. so i can talk to people for her. english is universal language. >> translator: hironari is still very young, so his way of expressing himself and communicating is premature. but i see the progress

a lot of parents in here are -- they have college-age children. i am myself. a lot of people are wondering what i tell my kids to do, where do i steer them to thrive in this second machine age. a lot of things are out of our power. getting in the political system, changing the taxation that we do have got things that we can do individually and our panel. what can people do themselves to condition themselves? >> three pieces of a glass. first a look at those kind of skills that machines are not -- we already touched on some, creativity, interpersonal relations cannot motivating people, caring for other humans, and those are areas that we continue to have in demand. the second piece of vices of the two blacks. the nature of technology is constantly evolving. andrew and i have continued to be surprised about the advancements that are happening. it is unlikely that anyone career

>> i think there is certainly age discrimination, but it's probably a soft age discrimination.ke you said, people are used to hiring what they're comfortable with. there's the 25-year-old guy in a hoodie who is a recent college grad who is brilliant. there are brilliant women, people who are of color, people over age of 40 that can have an impact. >> mark zuckerberg sort of famously made a comment that he did think young people were more brilliant. and i think there's also a feeling that if you get people right out of college, they're up on the latest tech. so there's discrimination on that front because they think somehow you've got the latest stuff if you're coming hot out of college. >> michelle, let me ask you this, then. what is the impact of this lack of diversity? is there an impact from a business standpoint or impact from a social standpoint? >> i think what's interesting to me, the business standpoint, i don't know. the companies, particularly google, says we are hurting our own innovation by not having a more diverse work force. this is hurting innovation. and that's

as we talked about before on the show this ag gag laws have been spreading across the country now into other countries as well and i've been focusing my work on that photography being criminalized and i saw some photos from satellite not too long ago from photographer called mischka here and they really startling to me because you could see the pollution from these industries from australia while you're talking you know it's they were just saying just striking and kind of haunting and beautiful in their own really disturbed tway but as a saying those of us think well what would happen if we could get even closer if we had a drone that could actually be over these farms documenting what's happening and i think it's time to use that technology for productive and powerful purposes instead of by the government and police there and what exactly are we looking at because i mean seriously it looks like a zombie festering wound and discuss the nuclear waste lot here and that's a good summary of it these are feed lots on cattle operations and i'm sure a lot of your viewers i've heard in a lot o

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age has happened to him. and my heart goes out to him.o i don't think of him as an egomaniacal, tyrannical monster. he's a man with deep flaws, of course. but there again, and with dan sullivan's guidance, you do get a sense of what a beloved man he has been. what a big heart he has. on his very first entrance, you see him as someone whom everybody loved, who just makes a horrendous mistake. he becomes victimized by his own vanity. i love that particular duality. i love any role in which a character turns out not to be what you expected him to be. to me, all the great drama comes from good people doing bad things and bad people doing good things. the contradictions in all of us. a beautiful line from hamlet, "i am myself indifferent honest, and yet i could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had never borne me." this is why shakespeare's is arguably the greatest playwright, is he just had this perception of people that we are all flawed. there's goodness in all of us and there's badness in all of us. and the intermingli

. >> when i aged out, i aged out with no health sthurinsurance. i aged out without an apartment.e to live, thankfully, but it's really ridiculous. no one's checking -- like, no one keeping tabs on kids. a lot of people leave the system and never look back. >> stories of a foster care system helping young people stay alive too often only to send them to the streets or even to prison. one study showing after ageing out, like they talked about, 60% of young men were convicted of a crime. all weekend our call to action, we have been looking at this problem. what about a solution? hawaii has just launched a new program allowing young people to stay in care until they're 21 years old. supporters say it's a game changer. critics say that extra time could build dependency. so is it working? i'm joined by the director of hawaii's department of human services. thank you for being here. tell us about your experience of ageing out. would more time have helped? >> i actually had a great transition out of foster care. i believe it is because i had a great support system from my former foster p

and by the time, you know, so king is dead in '68, i'm basically 4 years of age, 3 years of age when he dies, so, obviously, i never got a chance to see him, meet him or know him, but when i was 12 years of age, i had a life-altering experience that allowed me to be introduced to dr. king. obviously, posthumously. but his words, his spirit, the love in his heart, the hope in his soul, i was introduced to it at the age of 12. and though he had long since been dead, i was facing a life-threatening situation at the age of 12. .. >> guest: i had where yet -- i had wrote about it in another book. i was sue severely beaten at the age of 12. my father who i love and we have made up for this. but i was in the hospital for almost two weeks with severe injuries. i could not understand why i was falsely accused. i have never seen my father like that since or before and we beat me so bad i was in the hospital for a couple weeks. i could not figure it out. someone in the church gave me a box of king's recordings and when i had a chance to hear that love, hope and possibility in his voice somethin