Attorney, venture capitalist, and Portland native Ken Harris was ripe for retirement—a notion he rejected in favor of working with a nonprofit that could use his expertise. “To me, that’s what life is all about,” said Ken. “What can you do...

Global aging and technology innovation are each occurring at an unprecedented rate. The intersection of these two global macro trends creates significant need and opportunity for new products and services to transform and tech-enable the...

Let’s envision a model for healthy, functional longevity based on evaluating and improving the body’s bioresilience. Bioresilience is the body’s capacity to respond to stress. One way to visualize bioresilience is to imagine a WeebleTM, the...

Global aging has largely been described as a story of more—more years of living and more older adults. Interpreters of this demographic trend rightly describe it as an opportunity for business. Estimates suggest that the 50+ marketplace may...

My mother lived well into her 90’s, beating her life expectancy by almost 40 years. Her generation followed an established life path—work at one job or career until retirement. Then, with your few remaining years, travel and spend time with...

What if I told you that one of the largest megatrends in the world today—representing a market opportunity worth trillions of dollars—is being overlooked by investors? And that as a result, there are almost no products being developed to...

A growing number of people feel like an old carton of milk, with an expiration date stamped on their wrinkled foreheads. One paradox of our time is that Boomers enjoy better health than ever, remain young and stay in the workplace longer...

Not long ago, I was on a cross-country flight home to Los Angeles. The gentleman in the seat next to me was working away on his computer on a dazzling presentation. He showed me photos taken by the Mars Rover, a series of colorful...

The oldest age at which 50 percent of babies born in 2007 are predicted to still be alive in the United States is 104, according to the Human Mortality Database, the University of California, Berkeley, and Germany’s Max Planck Institute for...

Something profound is happening to the world economy—it is aging. The median age of an American in 1950 was 30—today it is 41 and expected to increase to 42 by 2050. For Japan the numbers are more dramatic—22 in 1950, 46 today, and 53 in...