Adults today are aging differently from any previous generation.
They are navigating digital infrastructures, longer lifespans, evolving family structures, and multiple overlapping roles across work, care, and community.
Source: UN WPP 2024
Most aging research tracks outcomes—health status, living arrangements, care needs. These are important, but they don't capture how people actually navigate aging: the daily adaptations, the subtle negotiations, the accumulated choices that shape later life.
Aging Observatory studies this middle ground, the years between active adulthood and late-life care needs, when people are making decisions about work, housing, relationships, and technology that will determine how they age.
The Observatory approaches aging as a continuous experience rather than a late-life condition, studying it longitudinally and in context. This reveals patterns that cross-sectional research and outcome-focused studies cannot see.