Is Tech Changing Aging?

We’ve blogged on a number of occasions about the use of tech to provide services and support to elders, for various reasons. The American Society on Aging will have a series of sessions that deals with how tech is affecting, impacting, or facilitating aging at their annual Aging in America conference. Searching the sessions listings by the keyword “technology” brings up a significant number of sessions.  An email I received highlighting the tech sessions included this list of sessions

• NEST CG Program: Co-design of Environments, Services and Technologies With an Aging Population
• Improving Health and Wellness of Seniors Using Wearable Technology
• Co-Designing Environments: The Way Forward
• On Participation: Co-Design of Services
• 21st Century Digital Communities: Technology that Supports Aging Needs
• An Innovative Model of Technology Strategies That Promote Aging in Place in Low-Income Housing Settings
• Building a Community-Based Sustainable Telehealth Intervention Program for Seniors
• Quantifying the Positive Effects of Music and Memory iPods and iPads for Dementia Care
• Policy to Practice: Assistive Technology and Aging
• Addressing Social Isolation Through Technology
• Gadgets or Godsends: How to Understand and Leverage Digital Technologies to Help Seniors
• Technology and a Multigenerational Staff
• The Impact of Senior-Friendly Websites
• Access: Innovative Mobility Options for Seniors
• Integrated eTechnology: Eldercare for the 21st Century
• Innovative Design Applications for Creating Living Environments for All Ages and Abilities
• ABCs of In-Home Technology for Post-Acute Patients
• Mobile Technology and Aging: How Seniors Are Keeping Up and Connecting
• New Technologies Supporting Creation and Sharing in Art Therapy With Older Adults
• Technology in the Life of the Caregiver
• Using Technology in Long-Term Care
• Medication Reconciliation Using a Mobile On-Demand Virtual Pharmacist
• Technology Solutions to Collect and Analyze Data Outside Hospital Walls
• Your Digital Mission: How Social Technology Can Advance Your Organization’s Service
• Developing a One-Call, One-Click Transportation System
• Age-Friendly Efforts 2.0
• Technology for Social Change

If you are at the conference and attend any of these tech sessions, let us know.