Aging as an Extreme Sport: Inventing Life Tomorrow

Dr. Joseph Coughlin, founder and director of MIT’s AgeLab, spoke last month at TEDx Boston about impressive advancements in longevity. 100 years ago, the average lifespan was 47, but according to Reuters, “half of babies born…

MIT’s AGNES, the ageing suit

As the world’s population gets older, how are we going to manage? Innovative approaches are being developed at the MIT AgeLab James Crabtree, comment editor at Financial Times Magazine, wrote an excellent article on the challenges…

Health Care Comes Home: The Human Factors

HUMAN–SYSTEMS INTEGRATION REPORT BRIEF, 2011 by the National Research Council (www.nationalacademies.org/bohsi) National Academy of Sciences • National Academy of Engineering • Institute of Medicine • National Research Council Health Care Comes Home: The Human Factors In…