We (Katy & Stephen) recently had the opportunity to spend three days in Sarasota, Florida visiting our friends at the Institute for the Ages (i4a). The Institute is a new organization and a great asset to innovators looking to design products and services the 50+ market – from early start-ups to large corporates. If you’ve [...]
Katy and Stephen participated in the AgeTech California Annual Conference last Thursday. It was a well put together event with a broad collection of technologists working on new solutions for older adults. We ran an ‘Innovation Clinic’ exploring some of the themes around innovation in aging. Here’s the deck: AgeTech CA Conference Nov 2012 – [...]
Aging2.0 is a proud media sponsor of AARP’s Health Innovation@50+ Live Pitch event. Here’s a press release / update from our friends at AARP. Congratulations to the Live Pitch finalists! We hope to see many of you in New Orleans on September 21st. Use the promo code Aging2 for FREE admission ($295 savings!). WASHINGTON, D.C. – September 5, 2012 – AARP [...]
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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 [...]
[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 [...]
At our May Meet Up we had the honor of introducing three older adults who reside at The Hallmark. These three not only represent the people Aging 2.0 exists to serve through innovation, but also the people we aim to involve in the innovation process itself. It was clear that the Aging 2.0 network of [...]
I visited Louisville, KY last week for a short trip to meet some of the many innovators there who are focused on aging. Aging and long term care is one of the key elements of their economic growth strategy, together with logistics (they’re one of the biggest UPS hubs), bioscience and tech. I’d not been [...]
This is a guest post by Eduardo Quiroga, a public relations intern at Spector & Associates, and is cross-posted from their blog. If you want to contribute a post to Aging2.0, go here. ___________________________________________________ One of the major themes highlighted at the inaugural Aging 2.0 meeting last week was the issue of communications with the aging demographic. Questions [...]
