We're living longer than ever, but that doesn't always mean we're living better longer. The Toronto Star held a live virtual event, led by award-winning journalist and host of this podcast, Moira Welsh and special guests Dr. Samir Sinha (Geriatrician and Clinical Scientist, Sinai Health and University Health Network) and Laura Tamblyn Watts (CEO of Can Age). They discuss how the habits you commit to now can shape the quality of your health years down the road.

Good health in later life isn't guaranteed — but the choices you make today can make those years stronger, more independent and more meaningful. Learn the simple daily changes that add not just years to your life, but better years.

Isolation and loneliness is the scourge of our later years but older men seem to have a profound struggle to create social connections and while there may be several reasons for this high suicide rate, some Ontario men aged 80 and older see no reason to live.

We hear one man's personal experience and his discovery of Men's Sheds, an organization that helps men get socially connected. A PhD candidate at B.C.'s Simon Fraser University explains the incredible value of 'generativity" in our later years and Dr. David Conn, a psychiatrist at Baycrest Centre, helps us understand suicide in older men and why it doesn't have to end this way.

Guests: Alan Marrison of Men's Sheds; Eireann O'Dea, PhD, Simon Fraser University and Dr. David Conn, Psychiatrist at Baycrest Centre.

The full transcript of this episode is available in Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or on the episode page at thestar.com/podcasts/how-to-live-100-or-die-trying

This episode was produced by Moira Welsh, Julia De Laurentiis Johnston, Matthew Hearn and Sean Pattendon. It was produced with the support of a journalism fellowship from The Gerontological Society of America, The Journalists Network on Generations and The Silver Century Foundation.

Hands up if you worry you'll outlive your money. Longevity is great - if the bills get paid and a lot of people in their 70s are still on the job because they need the money. The future of work is both perilous and potent, a chance to merge elders' crystallized intelligence with the incoming generations.

What happens when the CEO develops dementia and doesn't want to leave the C-Suite? Or, if you have to work to survive but your feet can't stand another eight-hour shift? What if you want to stay in the office game for creativity and relevance? And, what about the millennials who want your job? We examine the brave new world of intergenerational workplace longevity whether we can do the job, want the job or even need the job.

GUESTS: Beth Truesdale, co-editor of Over Time: America's Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer; Laura Tamblyn Watts, author of Let's Talk About Aging Parents: A Real-Life Guide to Solving Problems with 27 Essential Conversations.