Publication Date
January 9, 2025
Category
In the Media
In an article for MIT News, AgeLab Research Associate Adam Felts writes about Dr. Joe Coughlin and Luke Yoquinto's latest book, Longevity Hubs, Regional Innovation for Global Aging.
What makes Boston such a good place to do business in aging? One important factor, according to the Inc. story, was MIT — specifically, MIT’s AgeLab, a research organization devoted to creating a high quality of life for the world’s growing aging population. Inspired by that claim, AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin, AgeLab science writer and researcher Luke Yoquinto, and The Boston Globe organized a yearlong series of articles to explore what makes Boston such a fertile ground for businesses in the longevity economy — and what might make its soil even richer. The series, titled “The Longevity Hub,” had a big goal in mind: describing what would be necessary to transform Boston into the “Silicon Valley of aging.”
