An August 2021 report from the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies, Living in the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Health, Finances, and Retirement Prospects of Four Generations, examines the experiences four generations – Generation Z, Millennials, Generation X, and Baby Boomers – and the impacts of the pandemic on their health, employment, financial well-being, and their ability to save…

During a full week of engaging panel discussions, GCOA brought together experts from across sectors to talk about the most critical priorities and exciting developments in information and communications technologies that serve older adults. As part of the Special Track on ICTs and Older Persons, GCOA and WSIS established a special prize in 2021 entitled the…

Throughout 2020 and beyond, aging has been at top of the agenda for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). GCOA has worked with the OECD on aging for many years. Together, GCOA and OECD have jointly organized several expert consultations and workshops examining a range of critical topics through the aging lens: Alzheimer’s…

In 2021, GCOA partnered with the NYC Department for the Aging and NYU Silver School of Social Work on the two-part interactive Moving Beyond Ageism Summit. In the two sessions – which took place in March and April, aligned to the launch of the first-ever UN/WHO Global report on ageism – experts from across industries and sectors discussed how…

The Alliance to Beat COVID-19 (ABC) aims to encourage COVID-19 immunization for all. The goal of the initiative is to build acceptance with the hesitant, protect the most vulnerable, and facilitate uptake of the vaccine within the 60+ population. As two leaders in science and health strategy, Novim and GCOA are joining forces in our ABC…