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Ken Dychtwald
Kenneth M. Dychtwald is an American entrepreneur, gerontologist, psychologist, and lecturer. He is a co-founder and chief executive officer of Age Wave, a California Bay Area-based consulting and research company focused on the implications of an aging population. Early life and education Dychtwald grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Weequahic High School in 1967. Dychtwald studied at Lehigh University and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Union Graduate School. Career Dychtwald spent much of his career developing and honing the concept of the ''Age Wave'', a population and cultural shift caused by the converging global demographic forces of the Mid-20th century baby boom, increasing life expectancy, and the declining fertility rates of the later 20th and early 21st centuries. In 1986, Dychtwald and his wife, Maddy, founded Age Wave, a think tank and consultancy with a perspective on the social, business, healthcare, and financial implications an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerontologist
Gerontology ( ) is the study of the social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects of aging. The word was coined by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1903, from the Greek , ''geron'', "old man" and , ''-logia'', "study of". The field is distinguished from geriatrics, which is the branch of medicine that specializes in the treatment of existing disease in older adults. Gerontologists include researchers and practitioners in the fields of biology, nursing, medicine, criminology, dentistry, social work, physical and occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, economics, political science, architecture, geography, pharmacy, public health, housing, and anthropology. The multidisciplinary nature of gerontology means that there are a number of sub-fields which overlap with gerontology. There are policy issues, for example, involved in government planning and the operation of nursing homes, investigating the effects of an aging population on society, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
