AgeTech Month? If January isn’t yet designated as such around the world, then it ought to be, perhaps partly in honour of the arrival of a new book just published by Springer Nature (2026) –The Age of AgeTech by Alex Mihailidis who has earned a highly respected reputation as a global leader in the field
Is the AgeTech market coming of age? Over the summer news might suggest so, though in conversation with friends I know, outside the narrative of AgeTech that I’ve engaged in over the last decade, there is a gap in understanding of what it is and how technology in an aging society is in so many
Toma keeps it simple –“AgeTech is an emerging group of technologies which seeks to improve the lives of older adults.” With that, as part of my ongoing effort to keep us all up to date, here is a brief AgeTech Autumn Almanac for 2024, a look at events in play after a relatively quiet summer.
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
Empowered Aging Through Innovation. So was the title of last week’s two-day virtual Summit 2022 by Canada’s Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation (CABHI) and as with the summit held last year it was jam packed with speakers and two pitch competitions. If you were new to the conversation around technology and aging and never
For a 3rd year, as a supplement to last week’s Aging & Longevity, Conference Round Up 2022, this is a short listing of events – conferences, innovation forums and pitch presentations related to technology, aging and longevity. Gerontechnology – the field where technology intersects with aging and longevity, has many diverse purposes and applications related