The celebrated lifetime award recognises distinguished people who’ve developed impactful ageing-focused applications, companies, or improvements. Fashionable Ageing® represents a shift in how we speak about, envision, and put together for rising older. Moderately than working till retirement, then turning into ‘outdated’, Fashionable Ageing® sees our lives play out in phases, with every part bringing new alternatives to contribute to society in significant methods – through work, studying, enterprise, management, and group.
Ms. Parkinson, a fellow of the Australian Institute of Firm Administrators and graduate of the Stanford Enterprise College Progressive Expertise Chief Program and Stanford Government Program 2022, stated she was honoured to just accept the award on behalf of the GCMA.
“This acknowledgement is gratefully obtained, and emblematic of the plain, worldwide progress alternatives that Fashionable Ageing® presents,” stated Ms. Parkinson.
By 2050, round 1 in 4 individuals (1.3 billion) in APAC shall be over 60. China, Republic of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore could have the best proportion of older adults among the many prime 10 international locations. Client spending by people aged 65-plus is predicted to extend by $15 trillion globally inside the subsequent seven years. In APAC, the worth of the ageing market is projected to exceed $4.5 trillion by 2025.
Ms. Parkinson provides, “It affirms the super significance of the Fashionable AgeingⓇ motion, as a part of the worldwide longevity economic system.
“We all know that evidence-based, people-centred analysis has a transformative affect on the standard of the depth and breadth of services and products out there in market.
“Entry to the newest insights stimulates the market’s consciousness to spend money on satisfying the world’s largest, and quickest rising, client base. And that’s excellent news for the entire of our society.
“We’re pleased with our world footprint creating constructive transformational change. Organisations like ours, working in partnership with Authorities, business, analysis organisations and residents, could make extraordinary strides to allow and assist older individuals to thrive in Asia Pacific, and across the globe.
“Dwelling longer with out residing higher just isn’t ok. And whereas individuals’s unmet wants associated to ageing are sometimes universally shared, everybody’s journey is private. On the GCMA, it’s our deep privilege to study from the various, lived experiences of older adults, about their expectations, aspirations, and challenges. These insights can unlock higher, extra equitable outcomes for all, extra environment friendly deployment of public funding and a extra knowledgeable line of sight for the place capital funding ought to focus”, stated Ms. Parkinson.
Ms. Parkinson is the founding CEO of the International Centre for Fashionable Ageing ® (GCMA). The GCMA gives knowledgeable advisory companies, collaborates in enterprise-based partnerships, and produces world-leading analysis outcomes to advance profitable commercialisation.
The organisation is dedicated to rising the burgeoning longevity economic system, to advance the usual of residing for older individuals in APAC and across the globe.
The GCMA’s award-winning LifeLab®, based mostly within the Tonsley Innovation District in South Australia, is certainly one of solely 18 internationally accredited Dwelling Labs specialising in ageing by the European Community of Dwelling Labs (ENoLL) and holds important world affect.
