For many attendees such as myself, this has been a much looked forward to weekly appointment for facilitated exchange of questions and insights with international perspectives. However, with the passage of time, like most routines, after a while things need a rethink; and so it has come that as of October 2025, the IFA Café
Now into the fourth year of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing (2021-2030) it seems at times like an uphill struggle to communicate a positive message when, in broad terms, overall global health conditions are either in decline or at least suffering from inequities in health care delivery, with optimal health at risk from climate
AgeTech Innovation Week from AGE-WELL. Oct.4-8, 2021 Picking up on my October 19th frontline views on this event, the messages about AgeTech that threaded a number of panel conversations, I submit again the question – does the language of AgeTech need clarity, if not a rewrite of the language that defines it? That clarity also
Healthcare. Its future is in our line of sight now more than ever, a constant preoccupation here in the spotlight of a COVID world. However prior to this time the intense global conversation on healthcare, in particular framed around the health needs of ageing populations, had already become one of the top issues of our
#ifaTO2018 One thing I anticipate when attending a professional event such as the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) 14th conference some six weeks ago, is to take in presentations with an eye and ear open for a study in contrasts. This works either in the same presentation or between several sessions over three days, either
#ifaTO2018 After almost a year, promoting this event as a Conference Partner and waiting with anticipation to attend, the International Federation on Ageing 14th annual conference came to a close eleven days ago. As usual with conferences that deliver an abundance of diverse subject matter content – speakers, workshops, symposiums, paper and poster presentations, I