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Longevity hubs: regional innovation for global aging
Coughlin J., Yoquinto L., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2024. 370 pp. Type: Book (9780262049214)
Date Reviewed: Jan 23 2025

This is a book about innovating innovation. It posits a growing human need and purpose: “building a better world for aging adults and their loved ones.”

Longevity hubs: regional innovation for global aging is divided into three parts. The preface and introduction explain the emergence and recognition of senior citizens as a global market for age-related (65 and older) products and services. It also proposes a typology for identifying cities and countries that could be (or already are) moving forward to meet those needs and the approaches for doing so. The authors call this innovation “longevity hubs.” Essentially, these are innovation clusters of various scopes and sizes.

Part 1 consists of 11 chapters that are a reprise of 32 articles written for the Boston Globe in 2021 and 2022. Part 2 identifies nine global hub candidates: Dubai, Louisville, Japan’s urban satellites, Milan, Newcastle, Sao Paulo, Tel Aviv, Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), and Aging2.0 (a platform). The book ends with a conclusion, acknowledgements, and an index. Overall, it is very well done with impeccable research.

Researchers curious about the design and planning of a city from a historical perspective should see [1]. Learn more about the design of a future city and country with [2]. Entrepreneurs interested in home logistics and services should see [3,4,5,6,7]. Curious readers can find out more about potential nature-based health applications [8] and the MIT AgeLab (https://agelab.mit.edu/).

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Reviewer:  Ernest Hughes Review #: CR147874
1) Le Corbusier. The city of to-morrow and its planning. Dover, New York, NY, 1987.
2) Hitachi-UTokyo Laboratory (H-UTokyo Lab.). Society 5.0: a people-centric super-smart society. Springer, New York, NY, 2020.
3) FakhrHosseini, S.; Milton, M.; Lee, C.; Coughlin, J. Ideal connected home configurations: insights from expert users. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 68, (2024), 1159–1168.
4) Vaidya, M.; Lee, C.; D'Ambrosio, L.; Coughlin, J. Informed adoption of smart products: a user-centered approach to privacy communications and impact on product use. In DRS 2024: Research Papers. Boston, MA, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.1035.
5) Milton, M.; Aldenhoven, C.; Lee, C.; D'Ambrosio, L.; André, E.; Coughlin, J. Mobile interfaces for caregivers and older adults: iterative design of the LifeTomorrow Ecosystem with aesthetic and functional considerations. In DRS 2024: Research Papers. Boston, MA, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.1156.
6) Milton, M. C.; FakhrHosseini, S.; Lee, C.; Coughlin, J. Empowering robot designers: a digital tool for early-stage social robot prototyping and communication. In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, 2024, Article No.: 124.
7) Patskanick, T.; Cerino, L.; Ashebir, S.; FakhrHosseini, S.; D'Ambrosio, L.; Coughlin, J. F. Aging in a smart home? The oldest olds’ attitudes toward technology for aging-in-place. Proc. of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 68(1), 9-12.
8) Spoladore, D.; Pessot, E.; Sacco, M. (Eds.) Digital and strategic innovation for Alpine health tourism: natural resources, digital tools and innovation practices from HEALPS 2 project. Springer, New York, NY, 2023.
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