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The senior market is booming and there is plenty of room for product innovation and new businesses focused on improving the lives of older adults around the world. Learn more about these opportunities and related issues below. Last update 2.20.17
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  • Accelerating Product Innovation, Aging2.0
  • Airbnb of Senior Living, Senior Housing News
  • Contingent Labor Force Growing Fast, Center for Retirement Research, Boston College  
  • Deciding Whether to Run a Business in Retirement, US News
  • Ecosystems, IBM's New Vision for Senior Care Technology, Senior Housing News
  • Empathy Mapping, Stanford 
  • Find Hidden Opportunities in the Senior Market, Entrepreneur Magazine
  • Forgoing High Tech Gadetry, NY Times
  • Gig Economy, Better for Boomers Than Millenials, Next Avenue
  • Highlights from the Aging2.0 Optimize Conference, Phoenix Business Journal
  • Home Based Business Ideas that Serve Senior Citizens, Home Business
  • How to Build a Chatbot, TechinAsia; Chatbot applications
  • Lyft Focuses on Transportation Needs of Seniors, Senior Housing News
  • Senior Living Residents Inspire New Tech Products, Senior Housing News
  • Six Truths For Successful Startups Tackling Adult Care Marketing, TechCrunch
  • The Grey Market, The Economist
  • The New Booming Market, Inc.
  • Wanted: Aging in Place Entrepreneurs and Staffers, NextAvenue
  • 17 Disruptive Tech Ideas for Senior Industry Needs, HomeCare
  • 9 Growth Areas in Health and Wellness, Senior Living
  • Testing Tech Products in Senior Communities--What Works and What Doesn't, Senior Housing

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    • Emerging Technology & Concepts >
      • End of Life Options/Issues/Grieving >
        • VSED Primer
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Health Challenges
    • History of Aging >
      • Ancient Egypt, India, China
      • Before 1500
      • 1500s & 1600s
      • 1700s & 1800s
      • 1900s & 2000s
      • Early New England (1600s)
      • Quest To Look Young
      • Books
    • Housing Options & Aging in Place Guide
    • Insurance, Security, Fraud
    • Intergenerational Programs
    • LGBT
    • Positive/Successful Aging
    • Retirement/Estate Planning
    • Science of Aging
    • Support Resources
    • Travel
  • About
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