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.
Introduction to the Longevity Explorers
View this video of Richard Caro describing the Longevity Explorer initiative in a talk at the American Society on Aging, March 2018.
Explorers of the Future of Aging and the Longevity Economy
The Longevity Explorers community includes older adults, their families, and caregivers — who together make up a large “virtual” community of explorers.
We believe a variety of socio-economic and demographic factors will change greatly the experience of aging for us and for those who come after us. We know some of the current paradigms of growing older need to change. And we want to influence these changes.
We see ourselves as “explorers” of the future of aging. We want to explore new approaches to living as we grow older, and new products and services. We see the community of Longevity Explorers as a place to explore new ideas and a place where innovative people come to learn how we think about growing older, and to get help developing new and better products and services for future generations.
This community leverages the insights, and years of accumulated wisdom, of older adults themselves to accelerate the emergence of novel solutions to some of the challenges of aging. We are especially interested in technology-enabled products that can push off the time at which functional decline gets in the way of living life to the full.
From 2014 until 2020, the Longevity Explorers included a number of chapters around the USA which met regularly for face-to-face discussions. During COVID, these groups migrated to online video group interactions, and after some time merged into one large virtual group.
Since 2024, we no longer facilitate regular meetings, but engage the explorers in ad-hoc interactions as we explore tighter specific topics.
Demographics
The vast majority of Longevity Explorers are over 65. Some are as old as 100, with many in their 80’s and 90’s. Explorers include both men and women.
Most of the explorers live either in their own homes or in independent living sections of CCRC’s. Some live in Assisted Living residences, and some live in their own homes and have home carers.
The majority of explorers live in the USA, with a sizeable contingent in Canada, and some in other countries. Within North America, explorers come from a wide range of locations scattered all across the USA and Canada, including both large urban areas and smaller towns, and many different states.
The explorer community is open to all, and we encourage a range of ideas, and intellectual opinions, and welcome all people types to join us.
Purpose, Goals, Activities
For more details, you can read this description of our purpose, goals, and activities — developed by Longevity Explorer community members.
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