Aging Observatory is a research organization that studies how people grow older — across time and context — to equip decision-makers with foundational ethnographic insight for future innovation.
“The social scientific study of aging is a vibrant field of inquiry and motivated by much more than just population aging.”
By generating foundational qualitative data, the Observatory supports more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative approaches to policy, design, and technology.
At the heart of Aging Observatory is an open-source, AI-powered platform, a sophisticated idea generation environment built for exploring the why and how behind human behavior as people age.
Rather than delivering answers, it functions not as a static dashboard but as an environment where researchers chart connections, surface patterns, and map flows of meaning across the lived experience of aging.
Through ethnographic inquiry and systems thinking, the Observatory examines how aging is shaped by social, cultural, economic, technological, political, and environmental forces, and how these forces are lived and embodied over time.
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