10 Facts About Ken Dychtwald

Ken Dychtwald is a co-founder and chief executive officer of Age Wave, a California Bay Area-based population ageing business management company.

Ken Dychtwald turned his doctoral thesis into a book, Bodymind.

Ken 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 1973, Ken 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.

Ken 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.

Ken Dychtwald 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.

Ken Dychtwald was asked by Jon Monday to be filmed interviewing world religion scholar Huston Smith, on Smith's perspective of aging in the various cultures of the world and his personal perspective of growing old.