Title : From data to action: Translating population insights into healthy aging strategies
Abstract:
Canada is undergoing a historic demographic shift, with nearly one in five Canadians over the age of 65 a proportion set to grow dramatically in the coming decades. This transition presents urgent challenges for health systems, service planning, and public health policy, while simultaneously creating opportunities for innovation that addresses the real-world needs of older adults. The Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation’s (CABHI) AgeTech Insights is a national and global knowledge hub designed to inform scientists, policymakers, innovators, and entrepreneurs about aging and brain health trends. By tracking, analyzing, and disseminating global and Canadian data on older adults’ needs, behaviors, and technology adoption, AgeTech Insights provides actionable evidence to guide prevention strategies, service planning, and policy development. The initiative bridges epidemiologic surveillance, market intelligence, and lived experience to highlight unmet needs, functional limitations, and health system gaps across the population. This workshop will demonstrate how longitudinal and population-level insights generated through AgeTech Insights can inform scalable interventions, public health initiatives, and service delivery models tailored to older adults. Attendees will explore examples of how data-driven insights guide technology design, support implementation of preventive strategies, and enable policymakers and system leaders to plan for healthy aging at a population scale. By connecting population-level evidence to practical solutions, AgeTech Insights illustrates how knowledge mobilization can translate demographic and epidemiologic trends into interventions that enhance independence, healthspan, and quality of life for older adults.
