The SilverEco Awards 2026 recognized 36 organizations from France and around the world during the 18th SilverNight, held on September 14 in Cannes. The winners highlight concrete solutions addressing independence, caregivers, careers in elderly care, health, and new technologies.
Solutions to Address the Challenges of Ageing
The ageing well sector is increasingly moving from experimentation to real-world use. For their 18th edition, the SilverEco Awards recognized initiatives already deployed in the field, selected from 144 applications reviewed by 82 members of the French and international juries. In total, 35 awards were presented to 33 organizations. According to the organizers, this edition reflects a sector that “no longer just makes promises: it delivers.”
“This 18th edition showed a sector that no longer just makes promises: it delivers. Over two days in Canes, French and international players presented solutions already being used by older people and those who support them. We brought them together so that decision-makers could see them in action. This edition also focused on networking and sharing. The Festival’s international approach was particularly noticeable this year. Beyond professional exchanges, the Palais des Festivals in Cannes became a crossroads of cultures and different perspectives on ageing well, with the sharing of best practices as its guiding principle.”
Jérôme Pigniez, Founder of the SilverEco Festival
The Silver Economy 2026: Strongly Focused on SilverTech, Independence & Prevention
New technologies play a central role in the Ageing Well field, particularly artificial intelligence, medical remote monitoring, and digital services. However, the awards also show a broader approach to innovation, covering housing, prevention, professional practices, social connections, and responses to situations of vulnerability.
Beyond technology, the recognized initiatives address very practical everyday needs: preserving independence, supporting ageing in place, helping family members, and combating social isolation. Categories covering housing, leisure, wellbeing, and intergenerational connections illustrate this diversity.
This edition also places strong emphasis on prevention and health, with solutions focused on remote monitoring, cognitive stimulation, and preventing loss of independence. The goal remains to highlight solutions capable of improving the quality of life of older people and their loved ones in concrete ways.
The Awards extend this momentum with initiatives from Europe, Latin America, and other regions, covering AgeTech, artificial intelligence, independence, prevention, and social connection. This diversity reflects the different ways of addressing population ageing and the growing exchange of practices between organizations.
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With this new edition, the SilverEco International Awards portray an evolving Silver Economy, where innovation is no longer limited to technology but also extends to uses, organizations, and forms of support. This reflects the organizers’ focus on highlighting solutions already in use and capable of addressing ongoing demographic changes.
The SilverEco & Ageing Well International Awards Winners: 2026 Edition
AgeTech, AI & Digital Innovation for Ageing Well
- International Winner 2026: voize
voize is an AI-powered voice assistant designed for care teams in facilities serving older people. Care staff speak naturally at the point of care; voize understands the medical context, structures the information, and enters it directly into the electronic care record. The result: 30% time savings per caregiver and shift on documentation (Charité study) and a 15% reduction in turnover. More than 1,800 facilities use voize across Europe and now in the United States.
- Jury’s Special Mention: Altra
Altra is the operating system for care teams, an all-in-one platform covering everything beyond clinical care: real-time family engagement, AI-powered personalised activities, team coordination, and outcomes measurement.
Deployed across more than 1,000 services in seven countries, Altra reduces administrative workload and gives care teams more time to focus on supporting people, while providing inspection-ready evidence.
Autonomy & Independent Living Award
- International Winner 2026: House Of Tomorrow
Inloo is a toilet lifting aid that requires no electricity. Older people can sit down and stand up independently, without construction work, wiring, or caregiver assistance. Designed as an everyday product rather than a medical device, Inloo addresses falls in the bathroom, which account for 30% of domestic accidents, and adapts bathrooms to ageing.
- Jury’s Special Mention: We Care
We Care is a high-end senior living residence in Buenos Aires, founded on care centered around individual preferences. Led by Dr. José R. Jáuregui, President of IAGG (2022–2026), it combines clinical rehabilitation, medical care, palliative care, fine dining, and proprietary technologies, including a multisensory room, monitoring system, and customized beds, within a 7,000 m² facility with 67 rooms.
Education, Research & Ageing Awareness
- International Winner 2026: The Best Age Foundation
The Best Age is a research and training initiative helping organizations and society prepare for longer lives in the age of artificial intelligence. Based on one of the largest studies conducted in Central and Eastern Europe, with more than 4,000 respondents, it promotes longevity, senior inclusion, lifelong learning, and sustainable transformation of the workplace.
- Jury’s Special Mention: Association of Social Services Providers in the Slovak Republic
The Good Heart Award (Dobré srdce) recognizes outstanding professionals working in social services and long-term care in Slovakia. It highlights their commitment and supports professionals working in the Silver Economy and healthy ageing.
Prevention, Health & Longevity
- International Winner 2026: Walk With Path
With STRIDE-COM, Walk With Path has developed a smart connected insole combined with a digital monitoring platform. It continuously analyzes mobility, walking patterns, and foot health to detect diabetic foot complications at an early stage and enable earlier intervention. Prevention and remote monitoring help older people remain independent for longer.
- Jury’s Special Mention: The Capital Centre of Care and Treatment in Warsaw
The Capital Centre of Care and Treatment (SCOL) in Warsaw has implemented CARE360, an interdisciplinary long-term care model based on comprehensive geriatric assessment. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, psychologists, physiotherapists, and social workers develop personalized care plans, optimize medication, prevent functional decline, and improve quality of life.
Social Connection & Intergenerational Impact
- International Winner 2026: BondUp
BondUP is Latin America’s first comprehensive AgeTech platform dedicated to people aged 50 and over. Active across six regions of Chile, it combines a digital platform, in-person activities in physical spaces known as Espacio Silver, and partnerships with major banks and insurance companies. It addresses social isolation and the digital divide at scale, in a market of more than 70 million people that remains largely underserved.
Jury’s Special Mention: MANKO Association
The Senior Benefit Card is Poland’s largest civic initiative supporting active and healthy ageing. It supports more than 750,000 seniors through a network of 17,000 partners and 370 local authorities committed to supporting older people. The program strengthens seniors’ purchasing power while supporting local businesses, entrepreneurship, and social inclusion across Poland.
2026 Special Award
- Public’s Choice Award: BondUP
Already the winner of the Social Connection & Intergenerational Impact category, BondUP also won the international public vote. Its AgeTech platform, deployed across six regions of Chile, combines digital tools, in-person activities, and partnerships with major brands to help combat social isolation among people aged 50 and over.
www.bondup.cl
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