High-Level Forum on the Silver Economy 2020

Engine for Economic Growth and Healthy Aging
Actions For Healthy Development,
Demographic Dividend & Old Age Security

China & NYC

2020 Silver Economy Forum Agenda

2020 Silver Economy Forum – China was a virtual event with the first two sessions held on September 22nd and 23rd.  Click below to watch the China 2020 Kick Off Event.

GCOA would like to thank the China Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (CAGG), The Finance Branch of CAGG, and Pinetree Care Group for their partnership. Special recognition to the Founding Sponsor of the event, Home Instead Senior Care and to Amgen for its role as a Supporting sponsor.

Organized by GCOA, Bank of America, and Home Instead, this Symposium helped to usher in the WHO and UN’s Decade of Healthy Ageing (2020-2030). Building on the success of GCOA’s first-ever Silver Economy Forum in Helsinki in 2019, this 2020 Symposium gathered stakeholders and a foremost group of leaders from across the aging, financial, and public health arenas, aiming to unleash the opportunities brought about by healthy aging and the growing Silver Economy.

China

2020 Silver Economy Forum – China & NYC

September 22–23, 2020

Remarks
Interactive
Keynote
Fireside Chat
Panel

High Level Dialogue on China 2020 Silver Economy Forum: Engine for Healthy Aging and Economic Growth

¥5 .7
Trillion

Projected scale of China’s Silver Economy by 2021

61
Million

Number of WeChat users aged 55-70 by the end of 2018

11
Million

Number of “sandwich” caregivers providing unpaid care to an adult while also caring for children living in their home

GCOA would like to thank the China Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (CAGG), The Finance Branch of CAGG, and Pinetree Care Group for their partnership. Special recognition to the Founding Sponsor of the event, Home Instead Senior Care and to Amgen for its role as a Supporting sponsor.

Day One
China
Panel

How Addressing Conditions of Aging Supports Healthier Aging Across the Life Course

>50%

Of employees plan to continue working, in some form, past traditional retirement age

$1,055,000

Gap in wealth accumulation between men and women of retirement age, due in part to women’s time spent out of the workforce to provide care

5

Generations in the workforce for the first time ever

Organized by GCOA, Bank of America, and Home Instead, this Symposium helped to usher in the WHO and UN’s Decade of Healthy Ageing (2020-2030). Building on the success of GCOA’s first-ever Silver Economy Forum in Helsinki in 2019, this 2020 Symposium gathered stakeholders and a foremost group of leaders from across the aging, financial, and public health arenas, aiming to unleash the opportunities brought about by healthy aging and the growing Silver Economy.

Day Two
NYC
Panel

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