Ken Dychtwald

Ironically, history’s greatest accomplishment - increasing longevity - could become civilization’s biggest challenge. Without fresh thinking and innovative new solutions, the ensuing age wave could cause: a misalignment of many aspects of society, from pensions to playgrounds; pandemics of degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s; and a gerontocracy that is already sparking political age wars.

In this visionary new presentation, Age Wave Founder and CEO Ken Dychtwald PhD draws on his 50 years of leadership in the aging and longevity fields to describe the five “grand challenges” needed to avert these potential tragedies and by so doing match our health spans and brain spans to our lifespans, safeguard financial security for all generations, eliminate ageism while activating a flourishing longevity marketplace, and provide a 21st-century purpose for modern elders.”

Ken will also highlight decades of proprietary Age Wave research and insights to explore some of the most urgent questions facing businesses, governments, families, and individuals today, while offering a sweeping blueprint for the revolutionary changes that are needed in the coming years.

Conclusion:

Ken Dychtwald’s bold look into the future stimulates innovation and transformative change to meet the needs of today’s older adults as well as generations to come.

Retirement is morphing faster than you can imagine, and today’s pre-retirees and retirees are seeking answers to ensure financial security in a new, longer, more dynamic chapter of retirement. This presentation draws on Ken Dychtwald’s 50 years as one of the world’s foremost visionaries on aging and longevity, as well as Age Wave’s most recent cutting-edge research spanning five generations of adults to explore the most pressing questions in retirement planning today. The forces shaping today’s retirement planning will be explored, along with key strategies for financial professionals to demonstrate greater empathy and provide targeted solutions that safeguard a well-lived retirement in uncertain times.

Topics to be covered include:

· What are the greatest worries for pre-retirees and retirees in achieving a financially secure retirement, and what steps are necessary to ensure financial peace of mind

· What are the “generational generosity” warning signs, and how can well-intentioned people avoid jeopardizing their future financial security risk

· How women’s rising longevity, coupled with their growing financial power, is dramatically transforming retirement planning. What new strategies and tactics can financial professionals take to respond to women’s unique needs?

· How the growing demands of caregiving could impact retirement planning. What guidance can financial professionals offer their clients to minimize financial risks

· How financial professionals can best manage the greatest generational hand-off in history and guide clients to leave their legacy

Conclusion: This content-rich and action-packed presentation will inspire and motivate financial professionals on ways to create lasting relationships with clients and their families to ensure financial peace of mind for them while increasing shareholder value for their companies.

In this revealing glimpse into the future, Age Wave Founder and CEO, Ken Dychtwald, PhD, will provide a wide-ranging preview of how global population aging and increasing longevity will dramatically transform every dimension of health and healthcare.

Topics to be explored include:

· Have we entered a new age of aging, and how long might we live?

· Will our later years be a time of health and vitality or illness and disability?

· What advances are needed in diagnostics, bio-science, and medical/nursing training and skills to ensure that our health spans and brain spans match our lifespans?

· How do we feel about all of the “longevity inequality” that currently exists?

· Will super-longevity be purchasable on the open or black market?

· How will we spend our “longevity bonus” years, and what will be the new purpose of elderhood?

Conclusion:

This visionary keynote will inspire and motivate attendees to activate medical, social, business, policy and/or technology strategies to contribute to a far-improved healthcare system.

Increasing longevity, declining fertility, and the aging of the Baby Boomers are triggering an enormous age wave. This unprecedented demographic transformation is creating tremendous opportunities in the marketplace, the workplace, and our lives – alongside equally pressing social, political, and financial challenges.

In this presentation, Age Wave Founder and CEO Ken Dychtwald PhD, will explore some of the most urgent questions facing individuals, families, businesses, and governments, including:

· How the emerging - and unprecedented - longevity revolution is altering today’s demographic landscape

· How people will use their newfound “longevity bonus”

· Why a “cyclic” life plan is replacing the traditional “linear” model

· How aging Baby Boomers and Gen Xers are changing the paradigms of health, work, leisure, and retirement

· What are the biggest new market opportunities – many of which are hiding in plain sight?

Conclusion:

In this illustrative, forward-thinking keynote, Ken Dychtwald will shine a light on actionable ways your organization can be better prepared for the changing demographic landscape and the countless opportunities that are emerging.

Marketing campaigns are too often out of sync with the reality of today’s older, more seasoned buyer. Did you know that:

• Men and women over 50 now make up 33% of the total U.S. population and 44% of the adult population but control more than 70% of total wealth.
• Due to the combination of rising longevity, declining fertility, and the aging of the Baby Boom generation, this group is now bigger than the entire population of most countries.
• As a new generation of active and curious consumers, they now dominate the marketplace and are responsible for:
• 50% of new car and truck purchases
• 51% of personal care products
• 51 % of grocery food items
• 59% of books and reading purchases
• 65% of health care
• 65% of home maintenance and repairs
• 72% of prescription and OTC drugs
• 80% of retirement accounts

A recent AARP study showed that 62% of 50+ consumers wish that ads had more realistic images of people their age. And nearly half were annoyed that ads of people their age reinforced outdated stereotypes.

Dr. Ken Dychtwald, who is recognized as North America’s leading visionary and original thinker on longevity and aging for nearly 50 years, will explain how your business can best target this massive, misunderstood, misrepresented, and wildly untapped new market. He’ll illustrate the attributes that resonate with this potent consumer as well as what does not. He’ll provide an inspirational preview of the products, services, marketing, and advertising that will succeed at meeting the needs and aspirations of this new age of aging consumer while eliminating the ageism that has impeded shareholder value for too long.

Rising longevity and the aging of Boomers worldwide are radically altering both the demographic landscape and every aspect of our personal, social, financial, and political lives.

How will these irreversible trends toward increasing longevity impact healthcare, medicine, nutrition and environmental safety? As the massive global Baby Boom generation ages, how can we also ensure that our healthspans and brainspans match our lifespans? And how can we ensure abundant lifelong health for all – not just the wealthy?

In this revealing glimpse into the future, Age Wave Founder and CEO, Ken Dychtwald, PhD, will address the implications of rising longevity and how your organization needs to envision the future to prepare for it.

• How will maturity change as tens of millions of us live to 80, 90 or 100+?
• With continued breakthroughs in longevity, at what age will old age begin?
• Will the boomers opt for “pro-aging,” “anti-aging” or “ageless aging?”
• How will boomer women and men approach aging differently?
• Who will pay for the multiplying needs of a multiplying cohort of older adults?
• How will we match our healthspan to our lifespan?
• Are we prepared to reengineer many of our products and services to meet the needs of aging boomer consumers?
• How will boomers deal with “right-to-death” issues?
• Can our political system handle the demands that tens of millions of elder boomers will place on our social and economic infrastructure?
• How will your business be ready for this unprecedented longevity revolution resulting in dynamic forces that will forever change our relationship with health and medicine?

With the convergence of rising longevity, the aging of the massive Boomer generation, and widespread financial insecurity, we are already seeing retirement begin to morph. This presentation draws on Age Wave’s most recent cutting-edge research spanning five generations of adults to explore the most pressing questions and concerns in retirement planning today. The forces shaping the new retirement planning will be described along with key ways that financial professionals can ready themselves to demonstrate greater empathy and understanding to deliver targeted solutions that safeguard a well-lived retirement for these uncertain times.

Topics to be covered include:

• Why has financial peace of mind become far more important than wealth?
• What are the greatest worries for pre-retirees and retirees in achieving a financially secure retirement?
• What are the “generational generosity” warning signs for financial professionals and their clients that could jeopardize retirement?
• How is women’s rising longevity coupled with their growing financial power transforming retirement planning and how should you respond?
• How will the growing demands of caregiving impact retirement planning?
• How can financial professionals best manage the greatest generational hand-off in history and guide clients to leave their legacy?

Amidst our high-tech, high-anxiety, and workaholic culture, there is an awakening appreciation for the immeasurable value of great times with friends and loved ones, the satisfaction of continued personal growth, and the excitement of encountering new people, places, and cultures. Fueled by COVID fatigue as well as the dual Boomer liberations of empty-nesting and retirement—and turbo-charged by Millennial FOMO—hundreds of millions of men and women worldwide are hoping to enjoy more “time affluence” than at any other point in history.

This dynamic new presentation by Age Wave guru and author of his new memoir, Radical Curiosity: My Life on the Age Wave, explores the forces causing an unquenchable curiosity for stimulating and nourishing “peak experiences” of every form and flavor.

Dr. Ken Dychtwald will uncover the abundant opportunities for both entrepreneurs and industry leaders who understand how to serve this emerging new travel consumer.

Topics to be covered include:

• Longevity: more life, more time, more personal reinventions, more travel
• How will the unprecedented “age wave” demographic phenomenon both boost and transform the travel marketplace worldwide?
• Why the “freedom zone” is now the most liberated and liberating time in life?
• Life’s true valuables: the growing importance of experiences over things
• 5 trillion hours to fill: tapping the enormous “longevity economy”
• How can you transform your marketing strategies to meet the needs of today’s discerning travelers searching for “peak experiences?”