Image credit: How To Live Forever Mark Wexler has made a terrific new documentary called How To Live Forever, with the ironic subtitle, Results May Vary. Aging2.0 is not that focused on those colorful (and generally bearded) characters who propose ways to solve the aging problem, fascinating as they may be; we are more interested [...]
Excited to see Boston-based Redstar Ventures emerge from stealth and put a bold stake in the ground with its inaugural Salon on Dec 7th: The Rise of the Grey Market. Redstar was founded by Jeet Singh and Joe Chung (who created Oracle-acquired ATG), and Matt Beecher. I’ve enjoyed many conversations with their colorful and energetic Director of Research Marcus Wilhelm (who [...]
With half the world now living in cities, and that number set to rise further, the majority of us will inevitably be growing old in a city. But which ones provide the best home for an aging population? And on what criteria should that be judged? This meme was started by this post a few weeks [...]
This morning on the bus I sat next to a man in his 60′s. I could hear the music coming from his headphones loud and clear — Foreigner. Yes, an older man of Chinese descent was listening to stadium rock. How’s that for bursting your stereotypes? Not quite in his element, but not far off [...]
Springwise reports on what could be a useful gadget for those worried about Alzheimer’s patients wandering off – shoes that track. This was initially designed for kids, but they focused on the senior population as it was less problematic from a privacy perspective. Interesting that this was another idea from Japan – importing Japanese gadgets [...]
I spoke with a number of fascinating people at the excellent TedMed event in San Diego recently. One of these was Steve Gullans, who’s the business partner in Excel Venture Management of the always interesting Juan Enriquez and a former long-time Harvard professor who made the jump into the business world. Here’s a video of [...]
I had an interesting conversation with Simon Roberts this morning about the reasons for the slow pace of take up of aging-focused products. Simon is an anthropologist, and spent 6 years working on innovations in the aging space at Intel (now at a cerebral-sounding strategy and innovation consultancy, RedAssociates) and set up their aging-focused lab in Ireland. [...]
After the last post, Matthias Hollwich followed up and sent over a design they’ve been using for their new BOOM! project in Spain, which has incorporates some of the elements of 4sum. This is a LGBT-focused facility (as you can probably guess from the pic), and the pic shows self contained individual units with 5 [...]
