Ken Dychtwald Explained

Ken Dychtwald
Birth Date: 1950
Occupation:GerontologistPsychologistLecturer
Alma Mater:Lehigh University
Known For:Co-founder and CEO of Age Wave
Spouse:Maddy Dychtwald
Children:2

Kenneth M. Dychtwald (born in 1950) 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 population ageing business management company.[1] [2] [3]

Early life and education

Dychtwald grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Weequahic High School in 1967.[4]

Dychtwald studied at Lehigh University and received his Ph.D. in psychology from Union Graduate School.[5] [6] He turned his doctoral thesis into a book, Bodymind.

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.[7]

In 1973, Dychtwald co-founded the SAGE Project, an organization funded by the National Institutes of Health with the mission of improving health, wellness, and quality of life for older adults.[8] In 1982, he joined a panel created by the Office of Technology Assessment, a think tank for the US Congress, to examine how population aging would impact America in the 21st century.[9]

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 and opportunities of global aging and rising longevity.[10] Under Ken Dychtwald, Age Wave has conducted research studies with several Fortune 500 companies, including Edward Jones and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.[11] [12]

Dychtwald served as a fellow and presenter at the World Economic Forum and was a delegate and featured presenter at both the 1995 and 2005 White House Conferences on Aging.[13] [14]

He co-authored, along with Sandra Day O'Connor and Stanley Prusiner, an op-ed, The Age of Alzheimer's, published by The New York Times in 2010.[15]

In 2022, Dychtwald hosted The Legacy Interviews, a webcast with notable figures in the field of aging and longevity. This was turned into a 12-part podcast, a book, and a 60-minute documentary called Sages of Aging that aired nationally on public television.[16]

Dychtwald often publishes on the topics of aging and retirement, particularly in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Yahoo!, Forbes Magazine, and The Huffington Post.[17] [18]

Recognition

In 2004, Dychtwald, Tamara Erickson, and Bob Morison wrote the article It's Time to Retire Retirement, which tied for the first place McKinsey Award as the best article of the year in the Harvard Business Review.[19] [20] In 2012, he co-envisioned the idea of an Alzheimer's XPRIZE with XPRIZE Founder Dr. Peter Diamandis.[21] He is a member of the Board of Trustees at the XPRIZE Foundation and is the former Chair of the Alzheimer's XPRIZE.[22]

In 2016, Dychtwald and his wife, Maddy Dychtwald, received the Esalen Prize for "Advancing Human Potential of Aging Population".[23] Dychtwald also received the Inspire Award from the International Council on Active Aging in 2018, recognizing individuals for their contributions to the active-aging industry.[24] In 2023, he received the American Society on Aging’s President’s Award for evolving the world’s understanding of what aging means (Dychtwald was also honored by ASA in 1996 and 2013).[25]

Film and television

Books

Personal life

Dychtwald is married to Maddy Dychtwald. They live in Orinda, California, and have two children, Zak and Casey.[33]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adams . Susan . The Prophet of the Coming Aging Boom . 2022-04-04 . Forbes . en.
  2. News: Hannon . Kerry . 2020-10-15 . Rethinking Retirement . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-04-04 . 0362-4331.
  3. Web site: Stone . Amey . More Americans Could Outlive Their Savings. How Advisors Can Protect Them. . 2022-04-04 . www.barrons.com . en-US.
  4. Web site: Distinguished-Weequahic-Alumni .
  5. News: Brennan . Patricia . 2000-03-12 . What's Ahead for the Boomers? . en-US . Washington Post . 2022-04-04 . 0190-8286.
  6. Web site: Pitchman for the Gray Revolution - July 11, 2005 . 2022-04-04 . money.cnn.com.
  7. Web site: The Age Wave . 2022-04-04 . www.cbsnews.com . en-US.
  8. The Sage Project ... a New Image of Age . Journal of Humanistic Psychology . April 1978 . 18 . 2 . 69–74 . 10.1177/002216787801800216 . 18 January 2023.
  9. Web site: Aldrich . Philippa . Lost footage from the original SAGE project from 1970s . The Future Perfect Company . 18 January 2023.
  10. Web site: 2016-10-19 . Esalen honors couple for their work promoting purpose for aging populations . 2022-04-04 . Monterey Herald . en-US.
  11. Web site: Osterland . Andrew . Economic worries further older Americans' pandemic-era plans to delay retirement, survey finds . CNBC . 16 November 2023 . en . 9 July 2022.
  12. Web site: Ansberry . Clare . An Overlooked Skill in Aging: How to Have Fun . Wall Street Journal . 16 November 2023 . 2 June 2018.
  13. Web site: 2005 WHCOA Final Report .
  14. Web site: Rusoff . Jane Wollman . Why Advisors Need to Be 'Like a Quarterback': Ken Dychtwald . 2022-04-04 . ThinkAdvisor . en.
  15. News: O'CONNOR . SANDRA DAY . PRUSINER . STANLEY . DYCHTWALD . KEN . 2010-10-28 . Opinion The Age of Alzheimer's . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-04-04 . 0362-4331.
  16. Web site: The American Society on Aging's Legacy Interviews Recordings . The John A. Hartford Foundation . 18 January 2023 . en.
  17. Web site: Yahoo Signs On Business Writers . The New York Times . 18 January 2023 . 27 September 2005.
  18. Web site: Dychtwald . Ken . Enough with the Doom and Gloom . The Huffington Post . 18 January 2023.
  19. Web site: The 46th Annual McKinsey Awards: Recognizing Excellence in Management Thinking . . 18 January 2023 . 1 April 2005.
  20. Web site: Dychtwald . Ken . Erickson . Tamara J. . Morison . Bob . It's Time to Retire Retirement . . 18 January 2023 . 1 March 2004.
  21. Web site: Stewart . Janet . Alzheimer's Research Team Wins $25 Million to Help It Compete for 2018 XPRIZE . Alzheimer's News Today . 18 January 2023.
  22. Web site: XPRIZE Foundation Bio - Ken Dychtwald PhD . XPRIZE . 18 January 2023 . en.
  23. Web site: Ken and Maddy Dychtwald Receive the 2016 Esalen Prize for Advancing Human Potential of Aging Population Press Releases & Media Resources Esalen . Esalen . 18 January 2023.
  24. Web site: Ken Dychtwald: How The Age Wave Pathfinder Inspired A New View Of Aging - International Council on Active Aging® . www.icaa.cc . 18 January 2023.
  25. Web site: ASA Hosts the Conference in Aging in Atlanta . generations.asaging.org . 16 November 2023 . en . 4 April 2023.
  26. Web site: Singer . Natasha . In a Graying Population, Business Opportunity . The New York Times . 18 January 2023 . 5 February 2011.
  27. Web site: Boomer Century . PBS . 18 January 2023.
  28. Web site: With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance In Work and Life with Ken Dychtwald . KET . 18 January 2023.
  29. Web site: The Arc of Life: Huston Smith on Life, Death and Beyond . Vedanta Press and Catalog . 18 January 2023.
  30. Web site: High Point University Presents . PBS . 18 January 2023 . en.
  31. Web site: About Twin Cities PBS . Twin Cities PBS . 18 January 2023 . en . 7 December 2015.
  32. Web site: Sages of Aging . PBS . 18 January 2023 . en.
  33. Web site: Team . Esalen . Esalen Journal Life, Aging, and Longevity in the Time of COVID . 2022-04-04 . www.esalen.org.

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