Since 2015, AGE-WELL has grown to be Canada’s R&D leader in the world of AgeTech. So why not go all out? This year AgeTech Innovation Week 2023 is Oct. 23-27 in Toronto. It’s a tightly packaged bonanza event, which tags into the 52nd annual Canadian Association on Gerontology Conference in the next week Oct. 26-28
Unless I’ve lost track of time, this was the 5th year for the AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge – Canada’s technology and aging pitch competition which this year took place as part of the AGE-WELL annual conference on Oct.19th in Regina, Saskatchewan. The 2022 entrepreneurial start-up finalists presented their technology-based solutions aimed at improving the health
In a September 20th post I featured the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Ageing Societies Committee which was formed in 2017; the scope of which can be found in this link ISO/TC 314 Ageing Societies. By mid-2022, working groups with representation from 25 participating member countries and 17 observing member countries completed standards in three major categories – Age-inclusive
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
Settling in today for an AGE-WELL webinar – What Assistive Technology Means to Canadians to listen to a conversation on improving equitable access and to get a global perspective of where we stand. Assistive technologies serve to augment independent living, a range of devices or systems that support people’s mobility, hearing, vision and so on;
Now for Day 2 of virtual Summit 2022 by Canada’s Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation (CABHI) titled The Longevity Economy: Investing in an Aging World was geared to innovators and investors in the longevity sector and included two pitch competitions which also allowed attendees at the summit to vote in a People’s Choice Award.