Tag: disease management

• When Disease Becomes a Fashion Statement

  10 months ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Chronic disease plagues personal lives and public policy. Sheer numbers only begin to give a glimpse of the associated suffering, cost and scope of the problem. In the United States there are more than 110 million Americans with a chronic disease, e.g., diabetes, hypertension. Europeans are not far ... Read More

• Making Health & Old Age Fun: Dr. Oz, Joe Coughlin & MIT AgeLab’s AGNES

  about 1 year ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  AGNES (Age Gain Now Empathy System) was developed atthe MIT AgeLabto provide a tool for students, researchers, government agencies and companiesto better understand, empathize and develop innovations to meet the uniqueneeds of older adults (see Fast Company Magazine’s interview with myAgeLab ... Read More

• Social Media and the Online Lives of Baby Boomers: A Conversation with Jeff Taylor, Eons.com

  over 1 year ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Much to the dismay of theirchildren, baby boomers are online and doing more than checking out pictures offamily members and exchanging recipes. Boomers are moving to online communitiesto help them with the daily ‘jobs’ of midlife and older age. Certainly theseonline jobs include the common ... Read More

• Translating Global Trends into Regional Economic Opportunity: The Pacific Northwest Looks at Older Baby Boomers, Health & Technological Innovation

  over 1 year ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  TheMIT Enterprise Forum Northwest held Boomers, Technology & Health: Consumers Taking Charge in Seattle, Washington on January 19, 2011. The event examinedthe role of baby boomers in future technology innovation with a special focus onhealth.  The organizers did morethan an excellent job framing ... Read More

• Can Financial Services Be More Than Money? Transforming Baby Boomer Retirement Planning into Longevity Planning

  over 1 year ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Earlier this month Bank of America Merrill Lynch produced a webcast on “Health Care in Retirement”. Thewebcast was part of Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Help2Retire webcast series.I was pleased to be invited by Merrill Lynch to participate with a great panelof discussants.  View webcast (click ... Read More

• CNBC Business Guest Blogger Contribution - Coughlin: Boomers Driving & Demanding Innovation

  almost 2 years ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  A baby boomer turns 64 nearly one every seven seconds. Perennially youthful, butno longer young the nation’s largest generation is now well into middle age andbeyond. Born between 1946 and 1964 the nearly 77 million boomers are more thanthe nation’s largest cohort they are also its loudest. For ... Read More

• Health 3.0: Baby Boomers, Social Media & the Evolution of Digital Healing

  about 2 years ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Who is online? As thefigure shows, the majority of adults from 18 to 50 are living some form of digitallife. Even older adults 65 and older are growing in numbers with an estimated38% online. Now that they are online– what are they doing there? A recent Forrester study indicated that ... Read More

• China’s Gray Revolution: Why China May Invent the New Business of Aging

  about 2 years ago

  Joseph F Coughlin in Disruptive Demographics

  Discussions of China tend to focus on size – a nation of over 1.3 billion people certainly deserves attention from business and investors worldwide. But, ‘total’ numbers reveal little about underlying social and market dynamics nor the opportunities they may present. China is undergoing a ... Read More