With over 300,000 health apps now on the market, AGE-WELL trainee Dr. Peyman Azad Khaneghah wanted to help people sort through the often confusing array of offerings. His solution: an app rating system.

Today marks the launch of AGE-WELL’s fourth National Innovation Hub - The Centre for Technology Adoption for Aging in the North (CTAAN).

Tochtech Technologies, a Vancouver-area startup developing a non-wearable sleep tracker that allows caregivers to monitor the overnight safety of older adults, has won the last of three competitions in the 2020 AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge.

From Facebook to food delivery apps and fitness trackers, older Canadians have upped their use of many technologies and online services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Congratulations to Dr. Shannon Freeman on receiving a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research – AGE-WELL NCE 2020 Scholar Award. Her research will leverage technology to support older adults in rural and northern communities.

Read our latest editorials on the need for technological innovation and research networks, now and after COVID-19.

AGE-WELL and Mitacs are pleased to announce the recipients of their COVID-19 co-funded awards. The partnership supports technology-based approaches that mitigate challenges faced by older adults and/or their caregivers in the context of COVID-19.

Twenty-one early career researchers from ten institutions across Canada have been selected to receive AGE-WELL Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Awards in Technology and Aging.

Dr. Aki-Juhani Kyröläinen, a postdoctoral fellow in linguistics and languages at McMaster University and Brock University in Ontario, sees the effect of social isolation and loneliness in the language that seniors use.

Able Innovations, a Toronto startup working on an automated patient-transfer technology, has won the second competition in the three-part AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge.

Dr. Victor Fernandez (University of Alberta) and Azadeh Dastmalchi (University of Ottawa) are the most recent recipients of AGE-WELL’s Emerging Entrepreneur Award. These $25,000 awards provide entrepreneurs with financial resources, mentorship, and training to kickstart or scale their businesses.

(Français) Advancing technology-based solutions to support older adults and their caregivers AGE-WELL NCE Inc. (Aging Gracefully across Environments using Technology to Support Wellness, Engagement and Long Life) is pleased to announce funding for 22 new research projects that leverage technology to address the needs...

Fifteen Canadian startups have been chosen to compete in this year’s AGE-WELL National Impact Challenge. Finalists will be challenged to explain how their technology-based solution can positively impact older Canadians or their caregivers. Five finalists will compete in each of three virtual events reflecting...

Social isolation presents practical challenges for many older adults living at home. A Toronto startup has developed a service robot that automatically shuttles household items between floors, virtually hands-free.

AGE-WELL NCE Inc. welcomes today’s announcement that AGE-WELL’s funding has been renewed through the federal Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program to the end of fiscal year 2022-2023.

The number of knee replacement surgeries performed in Canada keeps rising as our population ages—even if many are being postponed during the COVID-19 crisis.

As seniors are at an elevated risk for severe health complications from COVID-19 and the adverse effects of social distancing, Mitacs and AGE-WELL are partnering to rapidly provide innovation-based solutions for this population. The new COVID-19 dimension to the Mitacs–AGE-WELL partnership ...

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Playing digital games can be fun for anyone, but it turns out they have multiple benefits for older adults. A white paper released today shows that digital games can help to maintain and improve health and quality of life for older adults who face physical,...

(Français) Anyone who has accompanied a friend or relative to a memory test, or had one themselves, knows how stressful it can be. AGE-WELL research teams are hard at work on new ways to monitor cognitive health and detect changes—by using tests that could...

(Français) AGE-WELL’s latest annual report highlights a range of activities and accomplishments from across the network―and the benefits for older adults and caregivers. Called Solutions for Healthy Aging, the report shows how AGE-WELL is bringing everyone together—researchers, older adults, caregivers, partner organizations and future...