Virtual reality technology can help with physical rehabilitation and pain management.
Trends in tech for older adults—from nice to have to must have
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Overcoming the ‘silver tsunami’
Aging is a first-person experience.
Engage early with caregivers, see a drop in patient rehospitalizations
The pilot examined the impact of caregiver interventions on patient health outcomes and healthcare savings.
Partnering in a changed world: the Network Operations Learning Collaborative
‘Integrated care is even more critical when people are staying at home all the time.’
The promise of technology for older adults: ephemeral or essential?
‘The high expectations we have held out for technology simply have not been met.’
Re-career? It’s No Problem, with the Advent of Increasing Practical Guidance
‘People are changing careers several times across their lives.’
Fernando Torres-Gil: get out of your comfort zone, be self-confident and resilient
The real action in the aging field lies ahead of us.
Universal design: unifying human diversity and building access across the digital divide
Slow tech adoption has amplified the digital disconnect brought on by the pandemic.
When tech really helps—not hinders—older adults
The tech adoption that has happened in the past six to eight weeks would have normally taken 10 to 15 years.
Hemp oil and CBD: wellness without complications
CBD has an impressive absence of side effects and secondary complications.
AARP Foundation programs respond to pandemic-exposed inequities for elders
AARP Foundation MySavingsJar empowers vulnerable elders to start a monthly savings habit.
Usability and privacy concerns around tech designed for older adults
‘Older adults’ needs, affordances, constraints and preferences are rarely considered in product design.’
Tying Adult Protective Services practice to outcomes
A new study standardizes self-neglect assessments and promotes caseworker training.
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Inside This IssueTrends in Tech for Aging
Generations Today, vol. 41, no. 4 (July-Aug 2020)
Trends in tech for older adults—from nice to have to must have
In recent years, it has become evident that technology can help older adults to meet certain goals they may have in later life. Those goals, both subjective and wide-ranging, might include getting in better shape, learning new skills and socializing with new people....
Overcoming the ‘silver tsunami’
The phrase “silver tsunami” drives me nuts. It is a common expression used to describe the unprecedented increase in the number of older people in the world, and it is used even in the aging services sector. People employ this doomsday term as a way of demonstrating...
Engage early with caregivers, see a drop in patient rehospitalizations
Every day, those of us in the caregiving field see first-hand that hospitalized patients are better off when their caregivers are deliberately involved in the patient's recovery process. Studies from groups like the Committee on the Learning Health Care System in...
Partnering in a changed world: the Network Operations Learning Collaborative
Editor's note: The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Administration for Community Living and The SCAN Foundation fund the Aging and Disability Business Institute, led by the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a). The mission of The Aging and Disability...
The promise of technology for older adults: ephemeral or essential?
Technology and technology-enabled interventions have become central to the lives of older adults, family caregivers and the workforce supporting older adults. Although often an unseen element, for many elders, smart phones and apps, electronic health records,...
Re-career? It’s No Problem, with the Advent of Increasing Practical Guidance
Editor's Note: This column is sponsored by AARP Thought Leadership and AARP International. Thought Leadership drives the creation of a marketplace for new ideas by advancing emerging issues, challenges the status quo and inspires new solutions that empower people...
Fernando Torres-Gil: get out of your comfort zone, be self-confident and resilient
Editor's note: This past January, ASA surveyed its members about what it takes to be a leader in the field of aging, what members would like to learn about how to develop leadership knowledge, skills and abilities, and who best personifies leadership. ASA members...
Universal design: unifying human diversity and building access across the digital divide
As the older adult population rapidly expands, accessibility means more than just standards compliance: it means developing solutions that embrace “good design” and technology that meets the needs of all users, including people with and without disabilities. Architect...
When tech really helps—not hinders—older adults
Never before has the convergence of two megatrends “super aging” (where one in five people are ages 65 and older) and “super tech” (an exponential increase in technology's capabilities) been more important than in the midst of the “super virus” known as COVID-19. Many...
Hemp oil and CBD: wellness without complications
True or false: providing effective healthcare for aging adults consists mainly of identifying a chief sickness or complaint, and then choosing a medicine or procedure to fix it. Based on today's holistic approach to wellness, the answer is a resounding false. More and...
AARP Foundation programs respond to pandemic-exposed inequities for elders
Editor's Note: This new Generations Today column, “Aging While...” is sponsored by AARP Foundation. It will focus on creating and advancing innovative solutions that help older Americans build economic opportunity and social connectedness. In his early 60s, well-known...
Usability and privacy concerns around tech designed for older adults
The shrinking caregiver-to-older-adult ratio raises interest in technological innovation for the future of aging and caregiving. Such interest is stimulating investment in digital health, including technologies for older adults that are aimed at sustaining and...
Tying Adult Protective Services practice to outcomes
Study co-author Pi-Ju (Marian) Liu. Pi-Ju (Marian) Liu won ASA's Graduate Student Research Award in 2011 for her study on older adults' decision-making around Medicare's prescription drug program. Raised and schooled in Taiwan, Liu attended graduate school as a...