{"podcast":{"title":"Century Lives","slug":"century-lives-4614503","podcast_index_feed_id":4614503,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/TPG7540400285","website_url":"https://longevity.stanford.edu/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/a99cd914-52d1-11ec-859d-4770efbffeac/image/0086b8f469779adeb2badbf62a71c16d.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Ken Stern","episode_count":74,"summary":"Do rules created when most people lived only to 50 or 60 still make sense when more and more people live to 100? Longer lives are among the most remarkable achievements in all of human history — and the greatest challenge of the 21st century. How can we ensure that our lives are not just longer, but healthy and rewarding as well? From the Stanford Century on Longevity, Century Lives is here to start the conversation. Join us as we venture into the world of education, work, healthcare, housing, and more to explore how our future as a population of centenarians has already begun.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503"},"episode":{"title":"The Forgotten Middle","slug":"the-forgotten-middle","published_at":"2026-02-18T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503/the-forgotten-middle","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG7217722811.mp3?updated=1768439975","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG7217722811.mp3?updated=1768439975","summary":"The forgotten middle—seniors with too much money to qualify for the government-subsidized housing offered to low-income folks, and too little to afford market-rate housing accessible to the wealthy—is a growing population. In this episode, we travel to Minnesota to explore housing solutions for the forgotten middle. Can we make housing affordable to this group of older adults—or will they have to figure out creative solutions for themselves?","meta_description":"The forgotten middle—seniors with too much money to qualify for the government-subsidized housing offered to low-income folks, and too little to afford ma…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2059,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/century-lives-4614503/episodes/the-forgotten-middle/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/century-lives-4614503/the-forgotten-middle.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}