People are living and working longer. Employers need talent. Older adults are changing careers, seeking work, balancing caregiving, and reimagining what the years ahead could hold. We listen to older workers and job seekers, work alongside employers, and turn what we learn into stronger workforce programs, policy, and practice.

Then we find the practical ways to make it work.

About iAging

iAging stands for Innovations for Aging.

We look for practical ways to improve how employers, workforce systems, and policymakers respond to longer lives and longer working lives.

Our starting point is simple: listen to the people doing the work and the people looking for it.

Through surveys, listening sessions, focus groups, career programs, and direct conversations, we learn from older workers and job seekers about what is working — and what gets in the way.

Listen. Connect. Act.

Listen
Hear directly from older adults, job seekers, and people changing careers.

Connect
Bring together employers, workforce partners, policymakers, and community leaders.

Act
Turn what we learn into better practices, programs, policies, and pilot ideas.

iAging is led by Karen Brown, a Colorado-based longevity and workforce strategist.

Karen has worked with employers, older adults, state agencies, workforce partners, researchers, and national organizations. Her work includes employer education, workforce research, policy analysis, career programs, and statewide older-worker initiatives.

She also works to elevate employment and economic opportunity within multisector plans on aging.

Innovation can come in small increments, versus a massive change. Sometimes it starts with a better question, a stronger connection, or a different way of looking at an old problem.