Longer lives are pushing financial planning beyond a single retirement endpoint toward a life-course model that integrates finances with work, health, housing, caregiving, and changing responsibilities.

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The Stanford Center on Longevity’s 2026 convening describes a shift from retirement-focused advice toward holistic life-course planning across health, work, housing, caregiving, and financial security. Wendt and Ra’s edited volume places related questions within an emerging longevity-finance field.

These sources do not establish one optimal financial strategy, a universal retirement age, or that longer lives necessarily require longer paid work. They also do not make “longevity finance” a settled or uniformly defined discipline.

Chapter 30 uses longevity finance as an emerging neighboring frame for asking what resources need to support across a longer and less linear life.

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