GCOA partnered with the New York Academy of Medicine, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and AARP NY to host a unique symposium on financial wellness and aging, including the prevention of financial fraud and abuse targeting older adults. The January 2018 invitation-only event leveraged New York City’s position as the epicenter of global finance and its celebrated…

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  report outlines the benefits of relationship-based home care to individuals and their families, to the care ecosystem, and to societies and proposes a set of policy actions to support the integration of this innovative form of care into European health and care systems.

In October 2017, GCOA launched the Remote Care Delivery initiative, which aims to leverage and mobilize cross-sector expertise to advance the uptake of RCD as a driver of healthy, active, and productive aging, and to encourage action at the global policy level. RCD includes videoconferencing with healthcare providers, tablet-based patient education, and devices that can prompt and track diet,…

In April 2018, GCOA convened a roundtable discussion focused on the conditions of aging, including reduced bladder control, declining oral health and skin health, loss of vision and hearing, and decreased bone density and muscle mass. The private convening brought 23 experts together in Washington, DC, to discuss conditions of aging and their impact on quality of…