The winners of the first inaugural Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation (HAPI) were announced during a Livestream event co-hosted by the award organizers, JCIE and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). Three Grand Prize Winners and seven Second Prize Winners were chosen by our international selection committee from a pool of over 130 applicants from 12 countries.
HAPI is an award program designed to recognize and amplify innovative policies, programs, services, and products that address the challenges facing aging societies. The award is unique for its breadth of coverage, allowing a wide range of organizations—including community organizations, NPOs, associations, local governments, businesses, and others—across the region to apply and enabling them to showcase how they are innovating on a diverse set of interconnected issues.
The winners were selected for their innovative work in three prize categories.
• Technology & Innovation
New technologies/techniques that encourage healthy and productive aging, that improve care, or that provide greater efficiency, safety, or convenience
• Community-Based Initiatives
Community-based approaches—including inter-generational approaches—to keep older adults healthy, active, engaged, and/or safe
• Supporting Self-Reliance
New ways to help older adults maintain, improve, or restore physical and mental functions, that assist them as those functions deteriorate, or that build resilience
2020 Grand Prize Winners
2020 Second Prize Winners
Bueng Yitho Municipality | Thailand
STRONG Model Program
Grundtvig.inc | Japan
The Housing Complex as One Big Family / grundtvig.inc
Help Without Frontiers Foundation; forOldy Project | Thailand
forOldy Grandpa and Grandma Shop
Indonesia Ramah Lansia (IRL Foundation) | Indonesia
Indonesia Elderly Friendly Community Program
Korea Association of Senior Welfare Centers (KASWC) | South Korea
KB Good Memory School: A Senior Center–Based Dementia Prevention Program
SmartPeep | Malaysia
SmartPeep AI Elderly-Sitter System
Vietnam Association of the Elderly | Vietnam
Bright Eyes Program for Older People in Vietnam