Three GCOA-Led Symposia to Address Innovations in Skin Health, Elder Caregiving, Alzheimer’s Disease, Financial Services and Technology to Enable Healthy Aging NEW YORK (July 21, 2017) – The Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA), the leading business voice on aging, will be featured in three symposia at the 21st World Congress of the International Association of…

Nestlé Skin Health’s latest app tracks skin scratching, even when the scratcher isn’t aware he or she is doing it.

KYOTO (April 26, 2017) – Today, the Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA) and Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) launched the Dementia Innovation Readiness Index, a first-ever comprehensive evaluation of innovation in dementia treatment, prevention, and care across G7 countries. “Since the last new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease entered the market more than a decade ago, the…

Hackathon judges award $20,000 in prizes, with a grand prize still up for grabs.  NEW YORK (March 29, 2017) – Four innovation teams took top prizes at the inaugural Nestlé Skin Health SHIELD Hackathon on March 10th and 11th, 2017. Judges awarded $5,000 to each winning team for their innovative proposals to address challenges in…

Startups promising to reinvent how we deliver care, perform procedures, or fight disease have fallen short — sometimes disastrously so.