Tag Archives: gerontology

Anthropology and Aging: More for the Resource Digest 2023.

A number of virtual seminars and conferences on several inter-connected aging and longevity societal issues have emerged on my calendar over these last few weeks, and these will continue into mid-November. In many good ways this will stimulate my thinking for future commentary, after taking time away over the summer. Yes, you need a break

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Technology and Aging 2020: moving to market with MySense

In his December 2019 Canadian Healthcare Technology Magazine article, David Stoller, Managing Director, MySense Canada states: “From the perspective of the aging population, today we are at a cross-roads that requires us to decide if ‘business as usual’ is going to be enough to support the new demographic reality.”…“To support the change, innovators, entrepreneurs and

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Navigating the Tides of Aging Together: CAG2019

Next up in the fall 2019 aging and longevity conference cycle is, in about three weeks, the 48th annual Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) conference, in Moncton, New Brunswick. As the title – Navigating the Tides of Aging Together – might suggest, the experience of navigating the waters of aging would not be limited to

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Aging & Longevity, Conference Round Up 2019.

Here is my 2019 – 6th annual January blog post with a short list of selected major conferences or symposiums around the world, under the macro theme of Aging and Longevity. As usual, I try to avoid featuring events that are overtly commercial in nature. I look for ones that present a professional and constructive

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Aging & Longevity, Conference Round Up 2016.

Here is my third annual list of selected major conferences or symposiums around the world, under the macro theme of Aging and Longevity. As usual, the challenge with covering this field is where do you start and stop with a list that could end up being so massive as to be of no real focus.

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On the Upside of Aging – Part 4

You might think, that after walking away from reading The Upside of Aging, an outsider to the field of aging, longevity or gerontology would somehow be overdosed or overwhelmed by the depth of this volume. In some ways you might ask with a sigh, why this obsession? So many aspects of an aging world population

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