AgeTech Innovation Week from AGE-WELL. Oct.4-8, 2021 It was a marathon event. If you chose to make the full run as I did, your mind would have been stretched to capacity. Five fast paced half-days of speakers, moderated panel discussions and an entrepreneur’s pitch competition, all on a virtual platform that formed a comprehensive overview
“I spend a lot of time initially listening to the circumstances… and along the way listen to important stories.” Marion York Often in later life journeys, when personal health and other life conditions, such as the dissolution of social connections, begin to affect your day to day in a detrimental way, the change can be
Canada’s technology and aging network, AGE-WELL held its second 2019 National Impact Challenge, the Startup Edition earlier this summer, and while I was keeping an eye on the finalists as they made their pitch presentations, summer vacation activities and other aging and longevity topics seemed to have delayed my report on the actual winners. Since
As I attend the AGE-WELL third webinar today, titled Building an Innovation Hub: A Case Study, it is timely also to mention that last week the finalists were announced for the AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge: Start-up Edition. Like last year’s technology design challenge, this acknowledges and awards companies working on technology-based solutions that can make
How AGE-WELL Technology is Changing Homes of the Future & Promoting Independence for All Technology and aging. How will it support “the rising tide of caregiving for older adults, and in this case in the home environment?” That is how Dr. Alex Mihailidis, Scientific Director at AGE-WELL, set up the opening of last week’s second
Following the narrative for AGE-WELL, Canada’s technology and aging network since 2015, it is pitching for 2020-2023, the next phase in their mandate to support older adults and caregivers in Canada and achieving social and economic impact. Actually as I view it, AGE-WELL began their wind-up for this big pitch last year with what