In recent years, the word ageing has changed its meaning. Whereas previously getting older was synonymous with shutting oneself away at home, taking care of one's grandchildren and becoming a passive element of society, over the years getting older has lost many of its negative connotations and has become synonymous with activity: social, cultural and also family activity. In this episode of The Social Observatory Cafe, Toni Rodon interviews MIT researcher Mercedes Balcells; Mercedes Jones, project director of the Center for Social Innovation at the Universidad de San Andrés (Buenos Aires); Adelina Comas, researcher at the London School of Economics, and Diego Valero, president of Novaster.