EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
FOSTERING INNOVATION IN THE AGEING SPACE
Stephen Johnston from Aging 2.0, a global innovation platform for ageing, spoke about his experience in the US and what is being done to foster innovation in the ageing space
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orking in San Francisco, you learn the Silicon Valley attitude that technology is simply a way of facilitating better living. Technology
and ageing are shaping our world. The unprecedented demographics of the future are set to have a significant impact on our society, and technology has the potential to help us cope with this. Just 20 years ago, the world was undergoing
a rapid upheaval, with the first websites appearing and mobile phones beginning to hit the mainstream. Since then, a lot has changed, but not just in terms of technology. Life expectancy has increased by six years globally, bringing with it significant changes to society. The challenge is to make it easier for older people to remain engaged with society. If this is not done, fundamental problems with economic growth will occur. With these demographic changes, it is obvious
that new challenges in terms of care will have to be tackled. One third of people born in 2015 in UK will get dementia in their lifetime. It is now a $600bn global problem, almost equal with cancer and cardiovascular disease. As a society, we will have to learn to innovate around this new
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