- More than one million adults in North America alone will take a self-administered brain health check-up via their iPad or Android tablet.
- More than one million amateur athletes will better manage possible concussions by taking cognitive baseline tests via a mobile device.
10 Predictions on How Digital Platforms Will Transform Brain Health in 2013
Some interesting predictions from SharpBrains on how the digital brain health market will evolve in 2013:
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Rethinking Retirement
We know from our most recent study that much is changing about how people around the globe regard "old age" and the aging process. We're also seeing significant behavioral shifts, as people are increasingly loath to leave behind the activities and proclivities of their youths. Some of these shifts are being driven more by necessity than choice, however--which is certainly the case with delayed retirement. Take a look at these findings from the U.K. Like it or not, new financial realities (both national and individual) mean many will have no choice but to keep working even beyond what has been defined as their "healthy working life expectancy," with significant social and business implications.
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Aging
Facing, and Planning for, How You Will Die (and why we don’t)
My Risk: Reason and Reality blog talks about how we perceive risk, and how those perceptions often don’t match the facts. We’re more afraid of some things than we need to be, and less afraid of some things than we ought to be, and those misperceptions--what I call the Perception Gap--get us into trouble. One of the things we should certainly worry more about is dying. Not whether we will die, of course, but how. Given all we do to manifest control over how we live, it’s stunning how few of us have made any plans for the nature of how we will leave this mortal plane.
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Aging
Attitudes Toward Aging: Looking to Live “Just Long Enough” (Infographic)
The world has done a tremendous job of extending the human timeline over the past two centuries. From an average life expectancy of 40 in 1800, we’re now up to 67 years globally, with a high of nearly 83 years in Japan. At the same time, more years spent in school and the postponement of marriage, procreation, and even “growing up” means we’re pushing the limits of youth ever further. Respondents to Euro RSCG’s latest global study expect to age gracefully, think they’re already aging better than most of their peers—and won’t worry about being old until their 70s. Yet there are concerns about the realities of growing old and clear evidence that people are leery of pushing the limits of longevity. Take a look at the infographic:
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