Innovation Booster Silver Aging

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The rapid aging of populations and increasing life expectancy present an unprecedented set of challenges on the society at large and the health system in particular: high disease burden, increased expenditure on health and long-term care, shortages in care specialists, complex care path and potential problems with old-age income security.Numerous society spheres need to adapt to this change and should undergo some level of transformation to tackle these challenges. Efforts should be made to adapt social protection systems, labour market, health and care.Radical, multidisciplinar and transsectorial innovation may represent one of the answers to these challenges.Gathering a wide array of multidisciplinary entities in the 3 linguistic areas of Switzerland, the Innovation Booster (IB) SILVER AGING will set up favorable conditions to build teams that will co-create, develop and assess, in an agile and open-innovation format, innovative ideas in areas centered around the quality of care and of life to tackle societal, economic and medical challenges.

Organization Metadata

• Organization Name: Innovation Booster Silver Aging
• Date: 1/31/2024 2:48:21 PM
• Administrators:
  • Sem Mattli  | 
  • Bettina Zipper  | 
  • Daniel CEFAI  | 
  • Cécilia Zurbach

Organization Description

The rapid aging of populations and increasing life expectancy present an unprecedented set of challenges on the society at large and the health system in particular: high disease burden, increased expenditure on health and long-term care, shortages in care specialists, complex care path and potential problems with old-age income security.

Numerous society spheres need to adapt to this change and should undergo some level of transformation to tackle these challenges. Efforts should be made to adapt social protection systems, labour market, health and care.

Radical, multidisciplinar and transsectorial innovation may represent one of the answers to these challenges.

Gathering a wide array of multidisciplinary entities in the 3 linguistic areas of Switzerland, the Innovation Booster (IB) SILVER AGING will set up favorable conditions to build teams that will co-create, develop and assess, in an agile and open-innovation format, innovative ideas in areas centered around the quality of care and of life to tackle societal, economic and medical challenges.