Innovation and the Future of Aging
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Innovation and the Future of Aging

This page is designed for entrepreneurs, innovators, and companies who are interested in creating better products and services for older adults, their families, and caregivers. 

Exploring the Future of Aging

As we have been exploring the “Future of Aging”, we have learned a lot about things like the unmet needs of older adults, their families, and their caregivers. And our comparative evaluations of existing products give us profound insights into what works and what does not, when it comes to products and services for these target customers. 

We like to collaborate with companies and entrepreneurs who want to create products and services to make aging “better”.

Often, we do this in the form of custom engagements, with results that remain confidential for the companies. But we also initiate background research ourselves that we make available to anyone interested in innovations relating to aging. 

Below are the Topic Hubs where we collect our research, insights, and explorations relating to Innovation, and the Future of Aging.

If you are looking for recommendations and advice for older adults, their familes or caregivers, you will find that in our Recommendations Section.

Topic Hubs

Pushing out functional decline

Technology and Aging

This is our Topic Hub for research into the intersection of Technology and Aging. In this section we collect various pieces of research about older adults and technology.

  Our thesis is that clever new products, with technology embedded into them, can push out the time at which functional decline gets in the way of living life as...
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Brainstorming, Unmet Needs, Ideation

On occasion, when we come across a “problem relating to aging that we wish someone would solve”, our Longevity Explorers spend some time brainstorming possible solutions, and fleshing out the details of the “unmet need”. We have collected these brainstorming and ideation sessions here in one place, so that any innovators looking for good ideas to work on can leverage our thoughts and ideas to help create useful solutions for older adults like our explorers.

  On occasion, when we come across a "problem relating to aging that we wish someone would solve", our Longevity Explorers spend some time brainstorming possible solutions and fleshing out the...
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Homebrew Solutions, Workarounds, & Ideas

Reports from older adults, and their friends and families, about ways they have solved challenges that were getting in the way of living life the way they wanted. These pieces of content contain real life experiences from makers, inventors, hackers of aging, and regular people dealing with growing older.

Reports from older adults, and their friends and families, about ways they have solved challenges that were getting in the way of living life the way they wanted.  These pieces...
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Designing for Older Adults: Learnings

There is a prevailing thought that products for older adults need to be designed with “different” things in mind than products for other demographics. But what should those “different” principles be? And is this idea even correct?

We are exploring these ideas in a series of explorations and articles. Our goal is to shed light on what people need to bear in mind as they think about developing products for the various types of people who collectively make up the bucket of “seniors”.

  There is a prevailing thought that products for older adults need to be designed with "different" things in mind than products for other demographics. But what should those "different" principles be?...
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