Longevity

Book notes: The Super Age

Are you ready for the Super Age? Bradley Schurman‘s recently launched book, The Super Age, draws on his experience with AARP and consulting with large corporates waking up to societal-wide implications of the demographic shift we’re living through. It’s an important book because it helps to reframe the conversation away from the negative associations of […]

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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Redesigning social care in an age of longevity

Summary: A principles-based national framework for social care The recent £20bn birthday present to the NHS was welcome, if underwhelming, but the more pressing question facing the UK is how to fix social care. The two are connected of course, ‘bed blocking’ costs up to 8,000 lives a year. In today’s ageing society there is […]

innovation

3 shifts in ageing: active stakeholders, connected data and new business models

I gave a presentation to the Care Quality Commission on Monday about some ‘disruptive’ ideas on the future of ageing. Obviously lots going on, so the hard thing is to come up with 3 topics rather than 33. Anyway, in the end I outlined three big shifts relating to individuals (becoming active stakeholders), technology (emerging […]

Engagement

Engagement, tech and 3Ps of data

One of the more noteworthy government appointments in recent weeks was that of 42-year old MP Tracey Crouch to be the new UK ‘Minister of Loneliness’. Although it initially sounds a bit like part of a Monty Python sketch, this is no joking matter. One might assume this role would be unique to the land […]

age-friendly Cities

Updating ‘age-friendly’ for the innovation age

The world is being rocked by four uniquely powerful disruptive forces: aging, urbanization, technology and globalization. The WHO’s age-friendly cities and communities (AFCC) initiative – updated to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by pervasive, ubiquitous, exponential technology – could be a powerful platform to help cities adapt and thrive in a fast-changing world. The […]