The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) is hosting an invitation-only, virtual series, Aging Made Simple, aimed at providing critical background information for key partners as the organization shapes its response to the ongoing demographic shifts.
JHF leaders say the accelerating pace of population aging represents a permanent transformation that will influence economic performance, social stability, and global competitiveness for decades. Lessons from other countries suggest that communities can turn aging into a source of resilience and growth by prioritizing healthspan, using technology strategically, reinventing institutions, and modernizing care models around consumer needs.
“At JHF, we try to accelerate positive change,” said JHF's President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD. “Right now, in the U.S., aging services are incredibly fragmented and complex to navigate. It’s an agency-by-agency, doctor-by-doctor, health system-by-health system daily challenge for older adults and their caregivers to keep people as healthy and independent as possible for as long as possible.”
JHF has focused on aging for more than 35 years and has recently drawn inspiration from Japan and Spain, two of the fastest-aging countries in the world as well as Singapore. Japan’s national strategy—combining public resources with industry and academia and developing localized hubs—has helped inform JHF’s vision for a longevity hub in Pittsburgh.
The Aging Made Simple series will highlight global and national models and feature examples of how others are planning for the population shift. Topics will focus on healthspan and include local “touchpoints,” technology to support care navigation and mobility, housing, economic opportunities, and JHF’s long-term vision for a Pittsburgh-based longevity hub built on international approaches.
