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Longevity Hubs

Regional Innovation for Global Aging

Edited by Joseph F. Coughlin, Luke Yoquinto
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How innovation hotspots for the world’s aging population may prove to be of vital economic and strategic importance in the years ahead.

Populations around the world are aging, and older adults’ economic influence—already considerable—stands to grow markedly in the decades ahead. Finding ways to make these lives better is a win-win-win: for older consumers; for aging economies; and for companies and the regions where they reside. This much-needed volume edited by Joseph Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto, Longevity Hubs, brings together contributors—entrepreneurs, researchers, designers, public servants, and others—who are addressing the multifaceted concerns of aging societies. Together, they explore the possibility that specific regions will soon distinguish themselves as longevity hubs: a home to disproportionate economic and innovative activity for older populations.

If a region were to emerge as such a disproportionate hotspot, that area and its home nation might better weather some of the challenges posed by population aging, while at the same time providing a cash injection into the local economy thanks to aging markets domestic and foreign. Longevity Hubs explores strategies adopted by different areas’ government and industry leaders to promote such activity; who different regions’ target markets are; and how local, older adults may affect (and be affected by) innovation in their area. Longevity Hubs opens on Greater Boston, with the collected articles comprising the “Longevity Hub” special project that ran in the Boston Globe in 2021 and 2022. Then the book zooms out to take in a more global stage, in the form of nine chapters written by representatives of cities and regions staking a claim as powerhouses of aging innovation. These include Louisville, in the US; Newcastle, in the UK; Dubai; Milan; São Paulo; Tel Aviv; regions in Japan and Thailand; and Aging2.0, a distributed network.
Introduction
Part I: The Boston Longevity Hub
1. Boston: The Silicon Valley of longevity?
2. Aging Well
3. Powering an Aging Workforce
4. Transportation
5. Innovation
6. Caregiving
7. Finances
8. Research and Development
9. Housing
10. Health 
11. Living Laboratory
Part II: Global Hub Candidates
12. Dubai
13. Louisville, KY
14. Japan’s Satellites
15. Milan, Italy
16. Newcastle, UK
17. São Paulo, Brazil
18. Tel Aviv, Israel
19. Thailand
Conclusion: Aging2.0
Acknowledgements

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How innovation hotspots for the world’s aging population may prove to be of vital economic and strategic importance in the years ahead.

Populations around the world are aging, and older adults’ economic influence—already considerable—stands to grow markedly in the decades ahead. Finding ways to make these lives better is a win-win-win: for older consumers; for aging economies; and for companies and the regions where they reside. This much-needed volume edited by Joseph Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto, Longevity Hubs, brings together contributors—entrepreneurs, researchers, designers, public servants, and others—who are addressing the multifaceted concerns of aging societies. Together, they explore the possibility that specific regions will soon distinguish themselves as longevity hubs: a home to disproportionate economic and innovative activity for older populations.

If a region were to emerge as such a disproportionate hotspot, that area and its home nation might better weather some of the challenges posed by population aging, while at the same time providing a cash injection into the local economy thanks to aging markets domestic and foreign. Longevity Hubs explores strategies adopted by different areas’ government and industry leaders to promote such activity; who different regions’ target markets are; and how local, older adults may affect (and be affected by) innovation in their area. Longevity Hubs opens on Greater Boston, with the collected articles comprising the “Longevity Hub” special project that ran in the Boston Globe in 2021 and 2022. Then the book zooms out to take in a more global stage, in the form of nine chapters written by representatives of cities and regions staking a claim as powerhouses of aging innovation. These include Louisville, in the US; Newcastle, in the UK; Dubai; Milan; São Paulo; Tel Aviv; regions in Japan and Thailand; and Aging2.0, a distributed network.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: The Boston Longevity Hub
1. Boston: The Silicon Valley of longevity?
2. Aging Well
3. Powering an Aging Workforce
4. Transportation
5. Innovation
6. Caregiving
7. Finances
8. Research and Development
9. Housing
10. Health 
11. Living Laboratory
Part II: Global Hub Candidates
12. Dubai
13. Louisville, KY
14. Japan’s Satellites
15. Milan, Italy
16. Newcastle, UK
17. São Paulo, Brazil
18. Tel Aviv, Israel
19. Thailand
Conclusion: Aging2.0
Acknowledgements

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  • Longevity Hubs
    Longevity Hubs
    Regional Innovation for Global Aging
    9780262379779
    Ebook
    The MIT Press
    Nov 19, 2024
  • Longevity Hubs
    Longevity Hubs
    Regional Innovation for Global Aging
    9780262379779
    Ebook
    The MIT Press
    Nov 19, 2024

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