Our populations are expanding, with advancing age and long-term conditions being defining features of a volatile healthcare landscape.

Digitally enabled health & assistive care is capable of boosting quality of life for an ageing population, without the off-target side-effects traditionally associated with pharmaceutical interventions. This has led to myriad initiatives which aim to enable people to maintain their independence for as long as possible. Most of these projects however have been developed in isolation and could benefit from a more open and collaborative approach to maximise societal and business impact.

This is the driving force behind the Agile Ageing Alliance (AAA), an international network of more than 2,000 cross-sector experts and thought leaders across a budding ageing societies ecosystem.

In a world where social networks are leading to a pandemic of loneliness, AAA is addressing the challenge at the neighbourhood level. Neighbourhoods are the settings where older adults can socialise, realise a degree of social control, and help to define a sense of purpose.