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Tag: aging

  • New Technology for Older Adults: Interview

    San Francisco radio station KALW recently aired this short interview with me, on New Technology for Older Adults. You can listen to it here: http://kalw.org/post/interview-richard-caro-new-technology-aging-adults

  • Co-creation and aging

    Last month I gave a talk on co-creation and the future of aging at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. You can view the entire talk below. It’s about the intersection of several megatrends: the rapid growth in the elderly in most countries over the coming decades; the sad fact that society is ignoring a…

  • What do seniors worry about?

    Over at Tech-enhanced Life we are trying to build a co-creation community to improve the quality of life of us all as we age. And help the families of seniors “worry less”. We think the place to start is by understanding the challenges seniors face. In a series of interviews and survey questions we have…

  • What if tech really could take 20 years off your age?

    My favorite question when I meet someone with an idea for a new venture is: “what problem are we trying to solve?“ Recently, I have been meeting quite a few new ventures in the “aging” space, and when I ask this question, I get a broad range of answers, many of which don’t quite resonate…

  • Aging “gray tsunami”: challenge or opportunity?

    I have been doing a lot of work over the last year or two on projects that relate to our growing elderly population, and the seductive idea that novel technology may somehow make the life of the aging population better, and perhaps the care of the elderly cheaper. The demographics are typically framed as “a…