Longevity Explorers: About

Introduction to the Longevity Explorers

View this video of Richard Caro describing the Longevity Explorer initiative in a talk at the American Society on Aging, March 2018.

Explorers of the Future of Aging and the Longevity Economy

The Longevity Explorers community includes circles of older adults who meet regularly face-to-face, as well as a larger “virtual” community of explorers who participate via the Tech-enhanced Life website and email.

We believe a variety of socio-economic and demographic factors will change greatly the experience of aging for us and for those who come after us. We know some of the current paradigms of growing older need to change. And we want to influence these changes.

We see ourselves as “explorers” of the future of aging. We want to explore new approaches to living as we grow older, and new products and services. We see the community of Longevity Explorers as a place to explore new ideas and a place where innovative people come to learn how we think about growing older, and to get help developing new and better products and services for future generations.

This community leverages the insights, and years of accumulated wisdom, of older adults themselves to accelerate the emergence of novel solutions to some of the challenges of aging. We are especially interested in technology-enabled products that can push off the time at which functional decline gets in the way of living life to the full.

Purpose, Goals, Activities

For more details, you can read this description of our purpose, goals, and activities — developed by Longevity Explorer community members.

Business Model

The Longevity Explorer community has been funded primarily by Tech-enhanced Life, PBC during its first three years of life, with support from several non-profit organizations that host individual circles. We are working on a business model that will make the Longevity Explorer community financially self-sustaining, and generate economic benefit for the explorers.