CEO Julianne Parkinson honoured with Ageing Asia Global Influencer Award 2023
Entrepreneurial champion of Australia’s emerging AgeTech® sector, and CEO of Australia’s Global Centre for Modern Ageing® (GCMA), Julianne Parkinson has been named among APAC’s leading changemakers in ageing, receiving the prestigious Ageing Asia Global Ageing Influencer Award 2023.
The award was presented at the Ageing Asia 11th Asia Pacific Eldercare Innovation Awards ceremony and dinner, held at Singapore’s iconic Marina Bay Sands on 25 May.
Global Centre for Modern Ageing CEO Julianne Parkinson is presented with the Global Ageing Influencer Award 2023 by Dr the Honourable Lam Ching-choi at the 2023 Ageing Asia Innovation Forum.
The prestigious lifetime award recognises distinguished individuals who have developed impactful ageing-focused programs, services, or innovations. Modern Ageing® represents a shift in how we talk about, envision, and prepare for growing older. Rather than working until retirement, then becoming ‘old’, Modern Ageing® sees our lives play out in phases, with each phase bringing new opportunities to contribute to society in meaningful ways – via work, learning, enterprise, leadership, and community.
Ms. Parkinson, a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and graduate of the Stanford Business School Innovative Technology Leader Program and Stanford Executive Program 2022, said she was honoured to accept the award on behalf of the GCMA.
“This acknowledgement is gratefully received, and emblematic of the undeniable, international growth opportunities that Modern Ageing® presents,” said Ms. Parkinson.
By 2050, around 1 in 4 people (1.3 billion) in APAC will be over 60. China, Republic of Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore will have the highest proportion of older adults among the top 10 countries. Consumer spending by individuals aged 65-plus is expected to increase by $15 trillion globally within the next seven years. In APAC, the value of the ageing market is projected to exceed $4.5 trillion by 2025.
Ms. Parkinson adds, “It affirms the tremendous importance of the Modern AgeingⓇ movement, as part of the global longevity economy.
“We know that evidence-based, people-centred research has a transformative impact on the quality of the depth and breadth of products and services available in market.
“Access to the latest insights stimulates the market’s awareness to invest in satisfying the world’s largest, and fastest growing, consumer base. And that’s good news for the whole of our society.
“We are proud of our global footprint creating positive transformational change. Organisations like ours, working in partnership with Government, industry, research organisations and citizens, can make extraordinary strides to enable and support older people to thrive in Asia Pacific, and around the globe.
“Living longer without living better is not good enough. And while people’s unmet needs related to ageing are often universally shared, everyone’s journey is personal. At the GCMA, it is our deep privilege to learn from the diverse, lived experiences of older adults, about their expectations, aspirations, and challenges. These insights can unlock better, more equitable outcomes for all, more efficient deployment of public funding and a more informed line of sight for where capital investment should focus”, said Ms. Parkinson.
Ms. Parkinson is the founding CEO of the Global Centre for Modern Ageing ® (GCMA). The GCMA provides expert advisory services, collaborates in enterprise-based partnerships, and produces world-leading research outcomes to advance successful commercialisation.
The organisation is committed to growing the burgeoning longevity economy, to advance the standard of living for older people in APAC and around the globe.
The GCMA’s award-winning LifeLab®, based in the Tonsley Innovation District in South Australia, is one of only 18 internationally accredited Living Labs specialising in ageing by the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) and holds significant global influence.