Maddy Dychtwald | |
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| Occupation(s) | Author, professional speaker |
| Spouse | Ken Dychtwald |
| Website | maddydychtwald |
Maddy Kent Dychtwald is an author, professional speaker, and a board member for non-profits focused on the topic of aging and the influence of older women on the global economy. Her books have discussed the economic improvement of women over time and how the increasing social and political power of women will impact fields such as financial services, healthcare, and consumer marketing.
Recognized as one of the top fifty female futurists globally, Dychtwald’s career has focused on exploring all aspects of the “age wave” and its fundamental transformation of the marketplace, the workplace, and retirement.
She is a lead partner for Portfolia, a collaborative equity investment platform in the Active Aging and Longevity 2 Fund. Dychtwald is a co-founder of the non-profit Women Against Alzheimer’s and previously served as a former board member of the BrightFocus Foundation, which funds research to cure diseases of the brain and eye.
Dychtwald is the author of four books, including the national bestseller Ageless Aging: A Woman’s Guide to Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan. Ageless Aging made USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly national best-seller lists.
Dychtwald’s books discuss the economic improvement of women over time and how their increasing social and political power will impact fields such as financial services, healthcare, and consumer marketing. Influence: How Women’s Soaring Economic Power Will Transform Our World for the Better addresses how traditional roles for men and women have been changing, with women making up more than half of those employed and the majority of university degrees conferred annually.
Cycles: How We Will Live, Work, and Buy discusses demographic shifts in the population as people live to older ages and are still involved in economic systems, with 50-year-olds becoming a dominant part of the business environment. The Boston Globe referred to the book's subject matter as a "thought-provoking, well-reasoned argument" and that Dychtwald successfully made her book "packed with anecdotes, making for a lively read."
In the children’s book Gideon's Dream: A Tale of New Beginnings, Dychtwald and her husband, Ken, teach children about changes that continue to happen to people as they get old and how it is not only children who have to deal with changes in their lives. A senior illustrator for Disney, Dave Zaboski, and his 7-year-old daughter created the pictures for the book.
Dychtwald has been featured in various media outlets including Newsweek, [1] U.S. News & World Report, [2] and TIME. [3] She is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s Retirement Expert Panel, where she authored the top wealth-management expert post for 2017 and 2018 based on reader traffic. [4]
Dychtwald and her husband founded a consulting firm named Age Wave that specifically aims to give advice and information to those in the baby boomer generation on a variety of topics. [5] She also frequently acts as a professional speaker in various international events, such as a trip to Melbourne, Australia in June of 2000 to speak on the subject of choice and how lifestyle trends are shifting so more people at various stages of their life can make new career decisions and even continue their education at an old age. [6] She presented before the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce in September of 2007 on how baby boomers are working to older ages and the impact that would have on the economy. [7] Alongside Merrill Lynch's Women and Financial Wellness division, Dychtwald conducted a study on the amount of money on average men and women make and determined there was a significant wage gap because women retire early, with this often putting them in financial difficulties in their later years. [8]
In 2016, Dychtwald and her husband, Ken Dychtwald, received the Esalen Prize for "Advancing Human Potential of Aging Population".. [9]
A graduate of New York University, Dychtwald has been a working mother living in the San Francisco Bay Area for much of her adult life. She is married to Ken Dychtwald. They live in Orinda, California, and have two adult children, Zak and Casey.
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age. The most commonly used measure is life expectancy at birth. This can be defined in two ways. Cohort LEB is the mean length of life of a birth cohort and can be computed only for cohorts born so long ago that all their members have died. Period LEB is the mean length of life of a hypothetical cohort assumed to be exposed, from birth through death, to the mortality rates observed at a given year. National LEB figures reported by national agencies and international organizations for human populations are estimates of period LEB.
Retirement is the withdrawal from one's position or occupation or from one's active working life. A person may also semi-retire by reducing work hours or workload.
A pension is a fund into which amounts are paid regularly during an individual's working career, and from which periodic payments are made to support the person's retirement from work. A pension may be:
Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom. By this dating, the youngest of them are 60, while the oldest are 79. The dates, the demographic context, and the cultural identifiers may vary by country. Most baby boomers are the children of either the Greatest Generation or the Silent Generation, and are often the parents of the younger members of Generation X and Millennials. In the West, boomers' childhoods in the 1950s and 1960s had significant reforms in education, both as part of the ideological confrontation that was the Cold War, and as a continuation of the interwar period. Theirs was a time of economic prosperity and rapid technological progress. As this relatively large number of young people entered their teens and young adulthood—the oldest turned 18 in 1964, the youngest in 1982—they, and those around them, created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort, and the social movements brought about by their size in numbers, such as the counterculture of the 1960s and its backlash.
Senescence or biological aging is the gradual deterioration of functional characteristics in living organisms. Whole organism senescence involves an increase in death rates or a decrease in fecundity with increasing age, at least in the later part of an organism's life cycle. However, the resulting effects of senescence can be delayed. The 1934 discovery that calorie restriction can extend lifespans by 50% in rats, the existence of species having negligible senescence, and the existence of potentially immortal organisms such as members of the genus Hydra have motivated research into delaying senescence and thus age-related diseases. Rare human mutations can cause accelerated aging diseases.
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996. Most millennials are the children of Baby Boomers and older Generation X. In turn millennials are often the parents of Generation Alpha.
Longevity may refer to especially long-lived members of a population, whereas life expectancy is defined statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age. For example, a population's life expectancy at birth is the same as the average age at death for all people born in the same year.
A baby boom is a period marked by a significant increase of births. This demographic phenomenon is usually ascribed within certain geographical bounds of defined national and cultural populations. The cause of baby booms involves various fertility factors. The best-known baby boom occurred in the mid-twentieth century, sometimes considered to have started in the Aftermath of World War II, sometimes from the late 1940s, and ending in the 1960s. People born during this period are often called baby boomers.
The Gray Panthers are a series of multi-generational local advocacy networks in the United States which confront ageism and many other social justice issues. The organization was formed by Maggie Kuhn in response to her forced retirement from the Presbyterian Church at the age of 65 in 1970. The Gray Panthers are named in reference to the Black Panthers.
Dayle Haddon was a Canadian model and actress, known for promoting anti-aging products manufactured by L'Oréal. Additionally, she was credited as the author of Ageless Beauty: A Woman's Guide to Lifelong Beauty and Well-Being. During the earlier part of her career as a model, Haddon appeared on the covers of many top fashion and beauty magazines, as well as the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 1973. Haddon also served as a wellness contributor to CBS News where she appeared regularly on The Early Show at the turn of the 21st century. Haddon married French businessman Glenn Souham, who was murdered because of his believed connections to the Iran-Contra affair. They had one daughter, journalist and producer Ryan Haddon. Haddon died at her daughter's property due to carbon monoxide poisoning in December 2024.
The sandwich generation is a group of middle-aged adults who care for both their aging parents and their own children. It is not a specific generation or cohort in the sense of the Greatest Generation or the Baby boomer generation, but a phenomenon that can affect anyone whose parents and children need support at the same time.
Jane Cunningham Croly was a British-born American author and journalist, better known by her pseudonym, Jennie June. She was a pioneer author and editor of women's columns in leading newspapers and magazines in New York. She founded the Sorosis club for women in New York in 1868 and in 1889 expanded it nationwide to the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She also founded the Woman's Press Club of New York City.
Gideon Rachman is a British journalist. He became the chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times in July 2006. In 2016, he won the Orwell Prize for political journalism. In the same year, he was awarded with the Commentator Award at the European Press Prize awards.
Jon Monday is an American producer and distributor of CDs and DVDs across an eclectic range of material such as Swami Prabhavananda, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Huston Smith, and Chalmers Johnson. In 1980 Monday filmed what turned out to be the very last live poetry reading Charles Bukowski gave, at the Sweetwater in Redondo Beach, which was released as The Last Straw on DVD. Monday directed and co-produced with Jennifer Douglas the feature-length documentary Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio. He is also President of Benchmark Recordings, which owns and distributes the early catalog of The Fabulous Thunderbirds CDs and a live recording of Mike Bloomfield. After retiring, his work with Huston Smith and the Vedanta Society of Southern California has created audio and video commercial releases as well as establishing free online archives of the historic material.
A limited form of the Social Security program began as a measure to implement "social insurance" during the Great Depression of the 1930s, when poverty rates among senior citizens exceeded 50 percent.
The Arc of Life (2012) is a film of an interview of world religion scholar Professor Huston Smith by Ken Dychtwald, a gerontologist and psychologist. The topics covered range from an overview of how societies from early human history to today deal with the problem of aging, to how the various religions of the world view the purpose of life, and what they teach about what happens after death.
Emma Caroline Teeling is an Irish zoologist, geneticist and genomicist, who specialises in the phylogenetics and genomics of bats. Her work includes understanding of the bat genome and study of how insights from other mammals such as bats might contribute to better understanding and management of ageing and a number of conditions, including deafness and blindness, in humans. She is the co-founder of the Bat1K project to map the genomes of all species of bat. She is also concerned with understanding of the places of bats in the environment and how to conserve their ecosystem.
Allegra Spender is an Australian politician and businesswoman. She is currently the member of parliament for Wentworth, having won the seat at the 2022 Australian federal election. One of a number of centrist community independents who won election on a platform of action on climate change, economic reform, political integrity, and gender equality.
Kenneth M. Dychtwald is an American entrepreneur, gerontologist, psychologist, and lecturer. He is a co-founder and chief executive officer of Age Wave, a California Bay Area-based population ageing business management company.
Delina Filkins was an American supercentenarian, and the first person verifiably to reach the age of 113. Noted during her own lifetime for her advanced age in the local and national press, she lived an otherwise ordinary life. Filkins' case has since been noted as particularly important, being the first person in recorded demographic history to have lived to the ages of 112 and 113. Her age at death was not surpassed until 1980.
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