Aging Well Consortium

Although 80,000,000 baby boomers are entering their 50s and 60s, the vast majority denies they’re aging. With no plans for growing older, many believe it just can’t happen to them.

Representing the fastest-growing age group in America, the WWII and Silent Generations are reaching their 80s, 90s, and 100s, with demands for health care and housing unprecedented in our history.

Author and philanthropist Pete Peterson calls this aging of America, “a permanent transformation” of our demographics. Not only an American phenomenon, most industrialized nations throughout the world have rapidly aging populations.

Obviously, this can mean future calamity, given the tradition of an old-age population being supported by taxes paid in by younger, working groups. And, most American families are not prepared. They wait until dementia or physical injury bring about a crisis and then ask, “What are we going to do about mom and dad?”

Out of this reality, the Aging Well Consortium is creating a platform to address these concerns and discover the opportunities of such remarkably changing times. In the belief that only a strong, public forum can bring about innovative ideas and solutions, our website provides focused attention from professionals, aging experts, and ordinary citizens to share their ideas.

The AWC website is information-rich and easy to navigate. We offer clear, concise tools, and even well-vetted products and services, for moving forward into middle age and beyond - providing templates for younger individuals to plan earlier and wisely for old age, helping families to meet the needs of aging parents and friends, and providing strategies for our own aging

Liz Taylor, the founder and president of Aging Well Consortium, began her career as a director of a nationwide nursing home investigation. Later, as an award-winning journalist and advocate for wise aging, she has become a family consultant, consumer educator, and popular speaker.

The mission of Aging Well Consortium is to enlighten, inform, and motivate, moving away from our society’s typical response of denial into the realization that aging is a natural part of living, the consequence of being born. There are many things we need to do to get ready.