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aarp international THE JOURNAL2014 Reimagining the Aging Experience HEALTH COMMUNITY MONEY PERSONAL TIME Living Well With Dementia AARP Age-Friendly Network Age-Friendly Employers Time Worth Sharing A Global Epidemic Age-Friendly Efforts Addressing Aging in Korea Fine Print The G8 Commitment Global Best Practices Singapore Silver Workforce Talent Exchange Designs on Dementia Michelin Mature Workers Campaign to End Loneliness t THEJOURNAL featured contributors / 2014 PRINT EDITION June Andrews Paul Ladd Eun-Kyung Park Director, Dementia Services Head, Team on the Post 2015 CEO, Senior Partners Development Centre Development Agenda, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP Eun-Kyung Park is the head of Senior June Andrews is director of the Partners, a senior-specialized platform Dementia Services Development Paul Ladd joined UNDP in 2006 and operating company established in 2007 Centre at the University of Stirling. She currently heads the organization’s that leads the senior industry in Korea. advises health departments and service Team on the Post-2015 Development providers around the world, and is a Agenda. Previously, he had led UNDP’s trustee of the Life Changes Trust, an policy team on inclusive globalization— independent charity disbursing grants covering issues of trade, development Louise Plouffe totaling £50 million across Scotland. finance, and migration—as well as the Senior Policy Analyst, International group that prepared UNDP’s contribution Longevity Centre (ILC) to the September 2010 Review Summit on the Millennium Development Goals. Louise Plouffe is a senior policy analyst Anna-Liisa with 24 years of experience in aging Hämäläinen policy research for the government of Canada, the World Health Organization, Editor in Chief, Oma Aika Magazine Sarah Lenz Lock and currently with the ILC in Brazil. With Alexandre Kalache, she led Anna-Liisa Hämäläinen has worked in Senior VP, Policy, Strategy and the preparation of the World Health magazines since 1978 and in Aller Media International Affairs (PSI), AARP Organization´s Age Friendly Cities: A Finland since 1996. From 1997-2012, Sarah Lenz Lock helps position AARP as Global Guide. she was Editor in Chief of Koti ja keittiö a thought leader addressing the major magazine (Home and Kitchen), and since issues facing older Americans. Working that has been Editor in Chief of Oma on behalf of PSI, Sarah integrates and Aika (Own Time). coordinates policy within AARP to help Eduardo Schutte assure policy consistency and maintain Senior VP, Global Sales Services & AARP’s social mission. Distribution, Hilton Worldwide Zhang Jianguo Eduardo Schutte has built a successful Director, State Administration of and ascending professional career in Foreign Experts Affairs, China George McNamara the Hospitality Industry. At Hilton Worldwide, he manages all functions Zhang Jianguo is the Vice Minister for Head of Policy and Public Affairs, and business processes that support and Human Resources and Social Security and Alzheimer's Society UK enable the Global Sales organization. Administrator of the State Administration George McNamara currently supports the of Foreign Experts Affairs. He also serves implementation of the Prime Minister's as the Vice Chairman and Secretary Challenge on Dementia, in particular General for the China Association for the creation of dementia-friendly Asghar Zaidi International Exchange of Personnel. communities. George has held senior Professor of International Social policy positions at the British Red Cross, Policy, University of Southampton Action for Children, the UK parliament Neelie Kroes and civil service. Asghar Zaidi is Professor of International Social Policy, University Vice President, Digital Agenda, of Southampton; Senior Advisor at European Commission European Centre Vienna; Visiting Senior PJ O'Rourke Fellow at CASE (London School of Neelie Kroes worked for years in Dutch Economics); and Research Affiliate at the politics, including as minister responsible Humorist and Political Reporter German Institute for Economic Research for postal and telephone sectors. In P. J. O’Rourke is the author of The Baby (DIW Berlin). His recent research 2004 she became the EU's Competition Boom: How It Got That Way (And It Wasn’t interests span active aging, well-being Commissioner, and, in 2010, Vice My Fault) (And I’ll Never Do It Again). of older people and issues linked with President of the Commission responsible financial and social sustainability for the Digital Agenda. of European public welfare systems. t 26 feature A MILLION V O I C E S Paul Ladd More than 1.5 million people all over the world have engaged in 100 national dialogues, 11 thematic meetings, and an online Head, Team on the Post 2015 Development Agenda, portal that includes a survey on global priorities called MY Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP, New York World. The global conversation has responded to a thirst for engagement by all people to shape their future, and provided a host of good ideas on how governments, businesses, and civil society can help to make that future a reality. 34 health LIVING WELL WITH DEMENTIA George McNamara Cities, towns and villages across the UK are leading the way Head of Policy and Public Affairs on a new path to becoming dementia-friendly communities. Alzheimer's Society UK Alzheimer’s Society, working with others, have set out on an ambitious agenda to make living well with dementia a reality, one community at a time. 92 personal time TIME WORTH SHARING Eduardo Schutte Every boomer’s travel experience is unique; some are Senior Vice President, Hilton Worldwide road warriors while others are once-a-year vacationers. But regardless of frequency or travel style, many polls rank travel as boomers’ No. 1 leisure activity, for a variety of reasons. in this issue 53 60 78 HEALTH 53 68 Longevity Dividend Best Practices 34 Lessons from Okinawa Age-Friendly Examples from Living Well by bradley willcox and Around the World With Dementia craig willcox Dementia-Friendly Communities 74 Offer Services and Support 58 Global Innovations by george mcnamara The Jiminy Wicket Project: Global Innovations Connecting Through Croquet Weifang University and Texas A&M 38 University-Corpus Christi: A Global Epidemic Sharing Best Practices Through Addressing the Growing Reality International Exchange of Dementia Around the World MONEY by alzheimer’s disease international (adi) 76 COMMUNITY Recognizing 40 Age-Friendly Employers The G8 Commitment 60 Announcing the 2014 AARP Best Dementia Treatment by 2025 AARP’s Age-Friendly Employers International Award by sarah lenz lock Network AARP’s Network of Age-Friendly 78 44 Communities Helps Cities to Addressing Aging in Korea Prepare for Aging Residents Designs on Dementia Senior Partners, Korea A Dementia Center Improves Lives by eun-kyung park by june andrews 64 Supporting 82 48 Age-Friendly Efforts Treasuring the Silver The WHO Global Network of Age- Campaign to Workforce Friendly Cities and Communities NEA, Singapore End Loneliness Influences Age-Friendly Initiatives Helping Older People to Create and by gloria chin by louise plouffe and Maintain Personal Connections ina voelcker by kate jopling and anna goodman 2 92 DEPARTMENTS & FEATURES THEJOURNAL editor-in-chief 4 Josh Collett From the Editor managing editor 7 Holly Schulz Maintaining a contributing editors Erica Dhar Global Perspective Bradley Schurman by a. barry rand Natalie Turner Susan Zapata 10 contributing writers The 10 Unsolved Mysteries Nicholas Barracca Brandon Cheslock in Aging Policy Jonathan Peterson 87 by debra whitman Boe Workman Respecting Mature Workers design Michelin North America 12 LevineDC.com by david stafford How the Boomers Ruined the journal online (Saved) Everything journal.aarpinternational.org by pj o'rourke 90 aarp international online Global Innovations 15 aarpinternational.org Koureisha Ltd: A Digital Agenda facebook Redefining Flexible facebook.com/aarpintl Retirement Opportunities by neelie kroes twitter 18 @aarpintl Surveying the Aging contact PERSONAL TIME Landscape AARP Office of International Affairs by asghar zaidi 601 E Street, NW 92 Washington, DC 20049 Time Worth Sharing 26 United States The Growing Popularity of t +1 202 434 2402 Multigenerational Travel A Million Voices f +1 202 434 2717 by eduardo schutte by paul ladd e [email protected] 96 32 AARP on the Scene Fine Print AARP International: The Journal is a Oma Aika Appeals to Finland’s publication of AARP. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent policies 50-Plus Population 102 of AARP and should not be construed as endorsements. The mention of a product by anna-liisa hämäläinen Life Reimagined or service herein is solely for information to our readers and may not be used for any commercial purpose. AARP, which was established in 1958, is a nonprofit, 100 106 nonpartisan organization with tens of millions of members ages 50 and older. Talent Exchange Twitter Shoutouts State offices are located in all 50 states, the Cooperation Promotes District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Sino-US Relationship 108 January 2014 by zhang jianguo ©2014, AARP Spotlight: Toby Porter Reprinting with permission only. THEJOURNAL | 3 from the editor Aging demands a response and compels us to reimagine our institutions and imagine the possibilities for living our best lives. Josh Collett VICE PRESIDENT FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, AARP Those of us working in the field of global and engage globally to generate collec- aging are familiar with the numbers. tive action. AARP’s