The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is leading an important foresight research series called Aging Forward with a focus on care-giving and technology. In this 90 minute webinar IFTF looks at community assets and equality issues with two guests who are working to overturn assumptions about the challenges and opportunities ahead for an aging population:
- Ruth Finkelstein – Director of NYC Age Friendly initiative; New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM); Co-authored a report The Aging City
- Susan Poor – Director of Innovation at OnLok Lifeways
Direct Link to the 90 minute webinar
Key Concepts: Aging in Place; Active Aging; Creative Aging; Population Pyramid; Demographic Transitions; Sensors
Other aging demographic resources:
- Age in Place
- EnGage – Engaged Aging via Creative & Active Aging experiences in Southern California
- Lifetime Arts – Intersection of Aging & Arts
- Creative Aging Toolkit for Libraries
- National Center for Creative Aging
- Aging Smart Employer – Workforce Project
- NYC Age Friendly Project (Vimeo video)
- MetLife Report on Civic-Culture Institutions & Aging Populations
- RWJ Long-term Care Issues
- WNYC Interview with Ruth Finkeltstein – Aging & Long-term Unemployment (Feb 2014)
- US Administration on Aging
- Project Sandbox
Follow my Diigo tags on Aging
Tim Carpenter of EnGAGE
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