In 2015, AGE-WELL Canada’s technology and aging network was formed as one of Canada’s Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) which essentially supports technology research & innovation strategies in many categories of industry such as natural sciences, engineering, social sciences & health sciences. Since the start I’ve followed AGE-WELL, and in 2020 their mandate extended for a
Since 1946, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has developed “voluntary, consensus-based, market relevant” international standards in wide ranging categories across almost every industry you can think of, from manufacturing to technology, environment, food and health. It also develops standards in thematic areas of social concern which also touch service and manufacturing industries, and one
While we are still at the front end of the Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030) – the global UN initiative launched in December 2020, it is important to keep conversant with all the emerging concepts, policies, systems and technologies within the dialogue on ageing and longevity and help everyday people understand what is happening. Hence one of
First a word on the word Recoding. When I chose it seven years ago as part of a new tag line “Recoding a Longevity Society”, I borrowed from technology talk as way of saying it was time change the language in this dialogue. As societal constructs and systems built from the 20th century sharply faced