Increasing digital literacy in the European healthcare sector has been requested by Martin Seychell, Deputy Director General Health of the European Commission, at the first high-level EU forum on the Silver Economy, which has been meeting in Helsinki for two days since Tuesday.

“Some people call them silver, but I call them white. And they are beautiful,” said Christine Lagarde, 63, CEO of the International Monetary Fund. She referred to her hair and the name of the conference this week in Helsinki, the Silver Economy Forum.

There’s an upcoming event focused on what’s been called the Silver Economy. For more on that and other international stories coming up this week, The Show was joined by BBC’s Rich Preston.

New York, NY (July 8, 2019) – Tomorrow, the Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA), the global business voice on aging, and the Finnish Government will host the High-Level Forum on the Silver Economy, the first-ever conference focused on global business and government leadership to reimagine aging.

New York, NY (July 3, 2019) – The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA), the global business voice on aging, and the Finnish EU Council Presidency, which commences in July 2019, have joined together to organize the High-Level Forum on the Silver Economy. It is the first-ever conference focused on business and government leadership, on a global basis, to reimagine aging. The Forum will take place in Helsinki, Finland, on July 9-10 at the iconic Finlandia Hall.