Title & Author:

Longevity hubs : regional innovation for global aging / edited by Joseph F. Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

Description:

lxxii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. The Boston longevity hub. Boston : the Silicon Valley of longevity? / Joseph Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto -- Aging well. Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett, and the power of bringing generations together / Marc Freedman -- The joy of intergenerational learning / Anne Doyle -- Powering an aging workforce. Why employers should recruit and retain older adults / Tim Driver, Jody Shue, and Alice Bonner -- Massachusetts lays a solid foundation for engaging older workers / Doug Dickson -- Transportation. Getting from here to there / Joseph Coughlin -- When it comes to autonomous vehicles, seniors can lead the way / Ryan Chin -- Look to the nonprofit sector to give older adults a lift / Katherine Freund -- Innovation. Collaboration should focus on health, wealth, and self / Jo Ann Jenkins -- What we need as entrepreneurs / Kyle Rand -- For insight, look to older entrepreneurs / Danielle D. Duplin -- The barriers to innovation / Joseph Chung -- Caregiving. I became a caregiver in my late twenties - and found little support to guide me / Libby Brittain -- In the face of an eldercare crisis / Sheila Lirio Marcelo and Wayne Ysaguirre -- Bringing home care up to scale / Seth Sternberg -- Caregiving is a critical service under stress / Nancy LeaMond -- There's an innovation gap in caregiving / Lisa D'Ambrosio -- Finances. Healthy, longevity, and the goals of financial industries / Brooks Tingle -- How the financial services industry can impact retirement / Jean Hynes -- Longer lifespans require secure financial futures / Lorna Sabbia -- Research and development. Needed : federal leadership on R&D for our aging society / Joseph Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto -- Budding technology should be adapted for elder care / Deepak Ganesan, Niteesh Choudhry, and Benjamin Marlin -- How science, technology, and industry can work together to cure Alzheimer's / Li-Huei Tsai -- Housing. Aging in community / Amy Schectman and Elise Selinger -- Smaller is better / Renee Lohman -- Where will we live as we age? / Gina Morrison and Susan McWhinney-Morse -- Community-centered senior living works for seniors and communities / Joseph Carella -- Architecture plays a key role in reimagining care solutions / Marisa Morán Jahn and Rafi Segal -- Health. The future of home health care is now / Heather Cox -- Life expectancy depends on where you call home / Michelle A. Williams -- Living laboratory. A living laboratory must close the equity and opportunity gaps / Jean Accius -- How Massachusetts can become a living laboratory for aging / Elizabeth Dugan -- Part II. Global hub candidates. Dubai / Alyaa AlMulla -- Louisville / Bruce Broussard -- Japan's urban satellites / Jon Metzler -- Milan / Emanuela Notari -- Newcastle / Gregor Rae and Colin Williams -- São Paulo / Layla Vallias -- Tel Aviv / Keren Etkin -- Thailand EEC / Pongsak Hoontrakul and Thanasak Hoontrakul -- Aging2.0 / Stephen Johnson.

Summary:

"A guide to making sure that the services required for aging well are in place in communities, thereby making them into longevity hubs"-- Provided by publisher.
"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. 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." -- Adapted from publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780262049214 paperback
026204921X paperback
electronic book
9780262379779
9780262379762

Subject:

Aging Economic aspects.
Aging Social aspects.
Older people Services for.
Self-help devices for older people.
Technology and older people.
Longevity Economic aspects.
Vieillissement Aspect économique.
Vieillissement Aspect social.
Personnes âgées Services.
Aides fonctionnelles pour personnes âgées.
Technologie et personnes âgées.

Added entries:

Coughlin, Joseph F., editor.
Yoquinto, Luke, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320559
Call No.: 320559
Copy: 1
Status: Available