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This week: We don’t need another warning

Mar 31, 2026

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11 min read

This week: We don’t need another warning

Plus: AI glasses to help people with dementia, AI fluency as the new class divide, pricing transparency under scrutiny, and a systems thinking tool.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: The immigrants keeping older people alive

Mar 24, 2026

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11 min read

This week: The immigrants keeping older people alive

Plus: A full-day AI workshop in Melbourne, the caregiving toll on families, Simone de Beauvoir on why we abandon the old, and solo ageing by the numbers.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: Your culture as competitive advantage

Mar 17, 2026

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12 min read

This week: Your culture as competitive advantage

Plus: Star ratings and the aged care customer journey, "tech-love goggles" in Swedish aged care, and a new study that reframes ageing as improvement rather than decline.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: What workers carry home

Mar 10, 2026

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11 min read

This week: What workers carry home

Plus: The baker of Ikaria, China's five-year plan and what it means for aged care, the jobs AI is actually disrupting, and a dementia prevention finding thirty years in the making.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: Australia's grey-shaped economy

Mar 3, 2026

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12 min read

This week: Australia's grey-shaped economy

Plus: The UN starts drafting rights for older people, what changes about diet when you're past 80, and a reframe on midlife and mortality.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: China observations on ageing, aged care and beyond

Feb 24, 2026

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11 min read

This week: China observations on ageing, aged care and beyond

Plus: Education-based productivity gaps, a man who gets older on his own terms, and building interactive tools and pages with AI.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: What is capital asymmetry for aged care

Feb 17, 2026

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11 min read

This week: What is capital asymmetry for aged care

Plus: The excitement and risks of AI, why digital companions won't solve social isolation, Europe’s longevity divide, and the “gold rush” for menopause marketing.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: What Australia gets right about volunteers

Feb 10, 2026

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11 min read

This week: What Australia gets right about volunteers

Plus: Longevity and retirement, lessons from extended use of monitoring technologies, a new family health app, and older adults using AI to better articulate problems

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: The financial fragility of our aged care workers

Feb 3, 2026

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12 min read

This week: The financial fragility of our aged care workers

Plus: "Green" dying, AI guidelines, a short film on intergenerational friendship, and the small changes linked to longevity

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: Manufacturing meaning in aged care

Jan 27, 2026

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10 min read

This week: Manufacturing meaning in aged care

Plus: parks as social infrastructure, AI health risks, and switching care without moving homes

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
This week: China's rulebook for AI companions, and a new look for Age Friendly

Jan 13, 2026

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8 min read

This week: China's rulebook for AI companions, and a new look for Age Friendly

Plus: trading room and board for companionship, time banking, and predicting disease from sleep patterns.

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
🦹‍♂️ The 70cm robot that went rogue (and what China's doing about aged care AI)

Dec 16, 2025

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9 min read

🦹‍♂️ The 70cm robot that went rogue (and what China's doing about aged care AI)

George Gouzounis
George Gouzounis
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