GCOA and the Business Council for International Understanding co-sponsored a luncheon discussion on Value-Based Healthcare Systems and Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs). The exclusive high-level dialogue featured a keynote address by a key NCD Stakeholder as well as an expert panel chaired by Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Director Emeritus Sir George Alleyne and included medical experts and…

Global companies of the future will likely look very different from those of today for two reasons. First, as a consequence of 20th-century gains in longevity, advances in healthy aging, and increasingly flexible working environments, many more people will be willing and able to work into their 60s, 70s, and 80s. Second, declining birth rates…

In July 2018, GCOA launched the 2018 Dementia Innovation Readiness Index and G7 Update at Alzheimer’s Disease International’s 33rd Conference in Chicago. GCOA and ADI first published the Dementia Innovation Readiness Index in April 2017. The Index was the first-ever effort to analyze the readiness of different countries to integrate innovative dementia solutions into their healthcare systems and policy…

GCOA partnered with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to co-create Transformation Maps on the topic of aging. WEF’s new Transformation Maps help users to explore and make sense of the complex and interlinked forces that are transforming economies, industries, and global issues. The Transformation Maps allows users to visualize and understand more than 120 topics and the connections and…

This GCOA report highlights the impact bladder health can have on quality of life as one ages and stresses the need for greater awareness of and new, innovative treatment options for overactive bladder (OAB). OAB is an increasingly debilitating, yet often unrecognized and under-addressed condition of aging affecting 30 million Americans.