Ageism is something that’s likely to affect everybody as they grow older and it should be treated as seriously as other “isms”, such as racism and sexism. That was the main takeaway from a recent “Solutions to Combat Ageism” webinar, organised in New York by the Global Coalition on Ageing, which aims to educate and drive change to improve older people’s health, productivity and social engagement.

Authored by The Economist Intelligence Unit, Integrated Care Pathways for Bone Health: An Overview of Global Policies examines the global policy environment for bone health. The goal of the research is to propose an integrated care pathway for bone health that takes into account the challenges and opportunities from countries around the world. To read…

New York, NEW YORK (March 25, 2021) –The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) today released a first-of-its-kind playbook to help Age-friendly Cities and Communities around the world address community concerns and increase confidence in the COVID-19 vaccines.

When Hollywood notices a trend, it’s a reasonable bet that it has become mainstream. So, as shown by this year’s Golden Globes extravaganza, digital health has officially joined diversity, climate change, and social equity as one of the premier celebrity issues of our time.

New York and Tokyo (February 24, 2021) – Today, the Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) and the Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI) announced a report sharing key takeaways from their roundtable on healthy aging, innovation, and the silver economy. The October 2020 virtual roundtable convened experts from across the health, business, aging, and elder homecare sectors in a policy discussion to call on governments to recognize health spending as a critical investment for countries like Japan, who are leading the global megatrend of aging and placing innovation at the center of this investment.