Ontario Innovation Summit: The Business of Aging

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 16, 2009

MaRS (a Toron­to-based inno­va­tion cen­ter) has just announced the Ontario Inno­va­tion Sum­mit: The Busi­ness of Aging to “fea­ture some of the world’s top experts focused on the many issues that the aging of the glob­al pop­u­la­tion pos­es for com­mu­ni­ties, gov­ern­ments, aca­d­e­m­ic and health­care insti­tu­tions, and businesses.”

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Why we need to Retool Use it or lose it

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 4, 2009

The July/ August 2009 issue of The Jour­nal on Active Aging includes my arti­cle Why We Need to Retool “Use It Or Lose It” An excerpt: “By now you have prob­a­bly heard about brain plas­tic­i­ty, the life­long capac­i­ty of the brain to change and rewire itself in response to the stim­u­la­tion of learn­ing and experience.…

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