GCOA convened its second in-person, High-Level Forum on the Silver Economy, November 8-9, 2022, at the World Economic Forum in New York, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland in Dublin, Deloitte Consulting in Geneva, the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York, and virtually.

Today, the Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA), along with cross-sector stakeholders representing patient advocacy, policy, industry, and academic communities, announced the launch of the Alliance for Health Innovation at the High-Level Forum on the Silver Economy in New York. The Alliance is dedicated to establishing the importance of innovation in achieving healthy aging and health equity through investments, policy reforms, and strategic partnerships.

As the care sector faces a 13.5 million worker shortfall by 2050, global government, academic, NGO and business leaders lay out priorities to develop the critical long-term care workforce as a profession of the future. New York, NEW YORK (October 3, 2022) – The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) and Home Instead, the world’s largest home…

As India struggles with the growing Omicron wave of COVID-19, another pandemic is gathering force that could someday be equally lethal. While India — and the rest of the world — was caught flat-footed by COVID-19, there is still time to prepare for this looming public health threat, if political and healthcare leaders act now.

In the wake of more than 6.4 million COVID-19 deaths worldwide and unprecedented economic destruction, the global community has no excuse to be caught unprepared for the next pandemic. Yet right now, a devastating parallel plague is already underway and worsening. Some years, it is killing well over 1 million people, according to medical journal The Lancet.