The Business of Ageing Conference, The Business of Ageing – Turning Silver into Gold* Dublin conference on ageing as an innovation opportunity for ireland (tags: ageing conference events Ireland)

potlatch Markets, on the other hand, are computational devices for translating opinions into facts. It's not so much that they don't lie, as that they can't. In the words of […]

Books of the decade: Your best books of 2006 | Books | guardian.co.uk Books of the decade. Most spot on. Few wrong 'uns. Plenty to add to that growing people […]

Older people would benefit greatly from free telecare Stephen Burke of Counsel and Care advocates free telecare (tags: telecare ageing UK) "Bookmark this on Delicious" Buttons JRF report on older […]

Walking, or rather bouncing on water. Amazing.

Here's the presentation I gave last night at the DEFUSE event, part of Dublin Design Week. "-ing": new practice development View more documents from ideasbazaar. It's a short piece, because […]

FT.com / Lex / Consumer & Retail – Boomer profits Less obvious is how this demographic change – the number of over-60s will rise to about 30 per cent of […]

Cabinet of Wonders: Social Sewing and Networked Objects The Availabot for older people, or those who like a bit of haberdashery (tags: internetofthings ageing social technology networks)

Peer Pressure and Other Pitches – WSJ.com Behavioural economics for the mass(es) marketer (tags: nudge behaviour IDEOtalk economics) WORKSNUG.COM Need iPhone (tags: mobile productivity wifi iphone office augmentedreality)

Media Literacy Audit: Report on media literacy amongst older people | Ofcom Ofcom report from 2006 (tags: ageing technology TSA09) Connecting older people to the world | Technology | The […]

How does a German senior center stop alzheimer’s patients from wandering off? « Nudge blog It builds a phony bus stop outside its entrance. (tags: nudge behaviour ageing Alzheimer's design) […]

FT.com / In depth – The A to Z of ageing Various anecdata on ageing (tags: ageing statistics)

northernireland-aboutus-events-livesentwined-3 ‘Britain & Ireland: Lives Entwined III’ is a book of essays exploring the complex web of relations that exist between Britain and Ireland. Commissioned and published by the British […]

Oldest WWI veteran dies aged 113 Mr Allingham, whose life has spanned three centuries and six monarchs, has five grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, 14 great-great grandchildren and one great-great-great grandchild. (tags: […]

Care: New ideas for old problems | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian Old age is awash with euphemism: on Monday the government launched its "building a society […]

A golden era of government ageing policy is no utopian dream | Society | guardian.co.uk Alan Walker on ageing policy in the UK (tags: ageing policy UK)

Why is telecare not being taken up more widely | UK news | The Guardian Useful overview of telecare in the UK by someone who knows what he's talking about […]

George Magnus: Britain is growing old and we’re not ready – Times Online Baby-boomers hitting retirement may not sound exciting next to the threat of countries disappearing into the ocean […]

FT.com / Magazine – First Person: Nick Page Nice first person piece on American's oldest rookie cop. (tags: reinventingretirement work ageing US)

theflatlakefestival.com > HOME Back, by popular demand and not the slightest bit put off by last year's drenching. (tags: Ireland Flatlake festivals arts music literary)