DENVER — Americans are living about 30 years longer than they did a century ago, yet many Coloradans reaching retirement age struggle to find meaningful ways to spend their time. A program at the University of Colorado Denver is working to change that.

CU Denver’s Change Makers program offers tools, guest speakers, and activities aimed at helping people at or near retirement design their next chapter with purpose — whether through new jobs, volunteer work, or personal passions.

“The old model of where you learn, and then you work, and then you retire, you shuffle off to oblivion, or wherever you shuffle off to, no longer fits,” said Anne Button, founding director of Change Makers. “We are helping Coloradans turn longevity into opportunity, both for themselves and for their communities,

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