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 […]
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Age-friendly = green
Image: A library in Sydney, Australia. Nov 2019. Photo credit: Scott David. A few weeks ago I met Susan Nash, a former Fellow at Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute, who is now helping San Jose develop their age-friendly strategy. During our wide=ranging conversation she said something that stuck with me, “an age-friendly city is also a […]
What’s next for age-tech? Global collective intelligence
I’ve spent this week in Tokyo, guest of Nomura Research Institute, who were sponsoring the Japanese government’s ‘Well Aging Society Summit’ (WASS). Our flight arrived Sunday, just after the typhoon, and we were lucky to only have a 3hr flight delay – other colleagues were delayed for 20+ hours, or had flights cancelled entirely. I […]
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 […]