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 [...]
The movie business – or at least a part of it, unlike much of the rest of business community – is proving to be both smart and sensitive in dealing with the aging population. Aware that shoot-em-up movies are unlikely to appeal to this demographic, there have been a slew of excellent movies recently that feature [...]
[This is a post from Aging2.0 team member Wen Dombrowski.] On Oct 29th, 2012 Hurricane Sandy devastated many neighborhoods throughout the Northeast U.S. In New York City, older adults were the most severely impacted by the storm because many lived in apartments or nursing homes in the worse hit neighborhoods. My medical colleagues and I who volunteered [...]
We are gearing up for the next Aging2.0 event in the Bay Area (@agingtoo, #Aging2). This time we’ll be heading down the peninsula to sunny Palo Alto… Event Details: Thursday, October 11th 2012 from 6-9 pm at the Stanford. John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building (Room 130). 366 Galvez Street Stanford, CA 94305-6015 Tickets available from Eventbrite. [...]
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 [...]
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 from Alicia Heazlitt, Director of Strategy at Innovate LTC, who’s launching an important new initiative to stimulate early-stage innovation in the aging space. LTCLINKTank Competition Announced To Introduce Emerging Products into the Senior Living and Long Term Care Provider Market Contest will give winner the start-up capital and expertise to [...]
If there’s one place that Americans seem to honor their elders it’s in the military. The veterans of this country may not get all the respect they deserve all the time, but there is a reverence for experience that is built into military training itself. As one young-ish veteran recently mentioned to me, whenever he [...]
This post is not exactly about new business opportunities for the aging market, but something more prosaic – a look inside the mind of Americans elders, and an opportunity to pause, and reflect what that means for us as society. Dr. Karl Pillemer is a Professor of Gerontology at Cornell and has been a productive [...]
