Next Avenue is a new national pubic media website that launched May 15, 2012 by PBS stations across America. It is focused on America's growing 50+ population. Next Avenue provides information and perspectives with articles and blogs written by staff journalists and expert contributors; curated content from government and nonprofit agencies and commercial media sources; video from PBS stations and independent producers; and community discussions in which users connect and share stories.

Next Avenue topic areas include:

Health & Wellness
Money & Security
Caregiving
Work & Purpose
Living & Learning

Next Avenue is targeting people who are starting to think about or are living what the producers call "adult part 2"--a new lifestage being largely defined by the Boomer population, the 80 million Americans born from 1946 to 1964 who are living longer and living their "older" years differently than generations before them.

There are 73 PBS stations that have signed on as Next Avenue affiliates, which will provide important local information to their markets. The CEO of one of the PBS affiliates is with me today; Doug Price.

Appointed by former Governor Bill Ritter, he has provided leadership on many initiatives, including the addition of the institution's first Ph.D. program in the field of nursing.

My guest today is Executive Producer and Director Keith Famie is a nine-time Emmy Award winning filmmaker and founder of Visionalist Entertainment Productions, which he established in 1997.

We discuss Keith's adventures, his documentaries and the embracing of aging.

I recently conducted two workshops in Colorado Springs for the Chamber of Commerce and a unique day-long conference called the Business of Aging Summit. Colorado Springs community leaders are embracing the aging of the Boomer generation as an opportunity, and many living there are intent upon making this community one of the nation's best for retirement and aging.

Today my guest is Dr. Sara Honn Qualls, professor of psychology and aging studies, and Director of the Gerontology Center at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

This time I'm joined by the chief marketing officer for Inspirato, classified as a luxury vacation club, a new travel services organization that's grown very rapidly in less than 16 months of operation. Within about a year, Inspirato achieved a valuation of around $200 million.

Inspirato combines the advantages of luxury home rental with the personalized services and amenities of luxury vacation clubs or resort hotels. Inspirato membership provides access to a portfolio of multi-million dollar vacation homes that are controlled and operated through the company's long-term lease arrangements, along with personalized service and support. 

Futurists think about the future, and through their well-considered deliberations emerge fascinating scenarios about how our lives may dramatically change. One organization looking at the Boomer future is the Institute for the Future (IFTF).

Several years ago the IFTF identified seven "big stories" that form the basis of Boomer decision making and can help us anticipate future choices and lifestyles.

The seven stories include:

· Extending capacity to live longer and work more vitally into later years (e.g. anti-aging and age mitigation);

· Resequencing traditional life stages (e.g. becoming a first-time father at 58);

· Enlarging self-help in health, housing, and finance (e.g. consumer-driven healthcare);

· Bringing communal lifestyles into contemporary and future contexts (e.g. cohousing communities);

· Creating new kinds of institutions to address aging (e.g. Silverprint Colorado, a statewide initiative to create a strategic plan for aging in Colorado);

· Forming new strategies to generate wealth (e.g. a plethora of new online sites marketing to Boomers, such as VibrantNation.com); and,

· Using global networks to address future problems and opportunities (e.g. medical tourism).