Tech-enhanced Life and a virtual community of older adults (the Longevity Explorers) are exploring the future of aging. We are especially interested in how new products and services that leverage technology can improve quality of life as we age.
Why Use this Website?
For: Older Adults, Families & Friends:
Use our independent, objective, analysis, product evaluations, and explorations to make the challenges of growing older less challenging — for you, or for older adults you care about.
For: Innovators & Companies:
Get help developing products and services that older adults actually want and need.
Don’t Let Growing Older Get in the Way
Since 2014 the Tech-enhanced Life explorer community have been trying out new products, exploring unmet needs, and brainstorming — and publishing what we learn on this website, so older adults and their families around the world can learn from our explorations.
Use our independent, objective, analysis, product evaluations, and explorations to make the challenges of growing older less challenging — for you, or for older adults you care about.
To get started:
- Explore the Topic Hubs
- View all our Analysis and Explorations (reverse chronological)
Helping Innovators
Along the way, the Longevity Explorers started saying things like this:
We keep trying out products “for seniors”, and you know, they are mostly BAD. Isn’t there some way we can get involved BEFORE companies spend $millions developing products we don’t want, and help them understand what we really want and need?”
So, we started doing some projects with innovators helping them understand what problems matter, and when their prototypes are “focused on real needs”, and don’t have too many “poorly designed aspects”.
We have now done quite a lot of these projects with companies ranging in size from Fortune 100 to tiny two person startups. Along the way we have developed a toolbox of techniques that make our sponsored explorations extremely effective in getting to the heart of what older adults really care about, and how they perceive a new product concept or prototype.
If you are an innovator:
- Learn More: Services for Companies and Innovators
Exploration Community
The Longevity Explorers are a unique sharing, evaluation, and ideation community — made up of older adults (in their 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s), and their friends, families, and caregivers.
Together, Tech-enhanced Life and the Longevity Explorers are exploring the future of aging and the intersection of aging and technology.
We’re using what we learn to help older adults live better for longer, and to help companies develop products that older adults like us actually want and need.
- Learn More: Longevity Explorer Overview