Communities Financing

A ‘Silver Bond’ to fund healthy ageing in communities?

Could a new silver bond finance cross-cutting local projects that are needed to help communities build and scale age-friendly initiatives? Blue bonds, green bonds… The World Bank has recently financed a ‘Blue Bond‘ that aims to fund improvements in fisheries. It’s an evolution of a green bond, and is described as “an innovative financial instrument […]

health systems Uncategorized

Building caring communities. Lessons from Nokia

Could we change the way we think about, and provide, care in our towns and communities – away from today’s siloes and towards more joined up experiences? And redesign things around people rather than buildings, bureaucratic boundaries or profit centres? That was the question I posed to delegates of the British Columbia Seniors Living annual […]

Aging2.0

Models will change the (ageing) world.

How would we go about harnessing the collective intelligence of hundreds of cities, thousands of organizations, tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, policy-makers, researchers, and millions of individuals and their families to address a significant global challenge? And how indeed, if the topic was aging?  Aging has traditionally not been an area where you would look […]

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Adding tech to the WHO ‘age-friendly’ recipe

On my panel today at SXSW, Cities Harnessing the Longevity Dividend, I’m going to appeal to cities to work with startups to address the challenges of their older populations, and intergenerational societies more broadly. This isn’t a big leap – over 600 cities and communities are already developing novel strategies for aging, as part of […]

business models government Grand Challenges Missions

An evening with Mariana Mazzucato and Collaborate CIC discussing “Collaborative Missions”

How do we go about effectively tackling major complex global challenges such as climate change, rising inequality, obesity and dementia? One thing is for sure, it won’t be with the same mindsets, systems and tools that got us here. The need for missions – to save the world A fascinating event last week by Collaborate […]

government strategy UK

From talk to action: Eight steps to turn the UK into a global longevity leader

There is an increasing awareness of the need for innovation to address the needs of our ageing population, and now is the time for action.  The transformational demographics we are living in – Britons today can expect at least an extra thirty years of healthy life  compared to their great grandparents – requires a fundamental […]

ageing business models

Six Disruptive Business Models to Power Our Neighbourhoods of the Future

Over the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of start-ups focused on ‘healthy ageing’. Since 2012, when I co-founded Aging2.0[i], we have hosted over 500 start-up pitch events across 65 chapters[ii] in 20 countries and are now tracking over 3000 companies globally. Most tend to focus on their breakthrough […]