After a great turnout at the first San Francisco event, we are gearing up for our second Aging 2.0 meetup in the City by the Bay on Thursday August 16th. We have four exciting speakers lined up for the evening. For more information about each speaker, please visit the Aging 2.0 | San Francisco event page. Hope to [...]
A few people have been asking us at Aging2.0 to post their jobs for them, since our rapidly growing base of readers and subscribers tends to be people with both an innovative mindset and a passion for the 50+ market. When people ask us to do stuff, we generally say YES! (with exclamation mark) so we’re adding [...]
In the previous post about the Healthcare Unbound Conference, Ryan Frederick commented that the time for change is now and that in order to create meaningful change we need to (1) focus on the consumer and (2) design innovative business models. LeadingAge and LeadingAge CAST co-sponsored a session – Innovative Technology-Enabled Care Models – which [...]
[This is a guest post by Ryan Frederick, founder and Principal of Point Forward Solutions, a strategic consulting and financial advisory firm dedicated to Seniors Housing & Care and related Health Care Services industries. Prior to founding Point Forward Solutions, Ryan was Senior Vice President at Erickson Living. Ryan can be reached at rfrederick@pointforwardsol.com and @ryanefrederick.] This past week San Francisco [...]
[This is a guest post by honorary Aging2.0 staff member Ben Johnston (Stephen's father) who's making his blogging debut... Enjoy.] I received this circular email today. It seems appropriate as a lighthearted addition to this website. Maybe there’s a message in here that is relevant for all the generations? – Ben At the cash register of the [...]
An excellent response with over 150 tickets ‘sold’ (they’re free), for the 7/26 event in NYC, that we’re having with SheSays at the Deutsch agency. We’ve just opened up another set on Eventbrite for Aging2.0 readers, the link to which is available from the event page here. If you want to go, grab a ticket asap. [...]
[This is a guest post by Suzie Mitchell about some new research they've just carried out into technology adoption by seniors. Suzie can be reached at suzie@mitchellpr.com or on twitter @suziemitchell. One question I had, based on this report, is why the use of apps is likely to dip in the middle income segment? Anyway, interesting stuff [...]
Image: Flickr / Harshil.Shah Aging2.0 is intended to address changing demographics as a worldwide phenomenon, and we’ve always had the perspective that we’re building a global network. Next week will see our first meeting outside the US, with a gathering at the Design Council in London on Tuesday 24th, that will showcase some of the [...]
[Note: This is a guest post by Hemali Thakkar from Health 2.0 (@Health2con). Palo Alto Medical Foundation's Innovation Center (@pamfinnovation) partnered with Health 2.0 to run the linkAges Developer Challenge and Accelerator Program. linkAges (#linkAges) is the Innovation Center’s Successful Aging initiative. We blogged about the challenge when it was announced in April and again after our energizing weekend at the linkAges kickoff [...]
Aging2.0 is having its first meetup in Chicago on July 31st at TechNexus, a collaborative hub for Chicago’s tech community. We’re partnering again with InnovateLTC, with whom we’re a judge at the previous day’s Lincoln LINK event. Tickets available from Eventbrite. Details: 6pm, July 31st TechNexus, 200 S Wacker Drive, 15th Floor, Chicago, IL 60606 Presenters (more to be [...]
