Forum, Network and Resource for the Challenges of an Aging Society
Forum, Network and Resource for the Challenges of an Aging Society
Next Events
Tech Support for Growing Older: How to better understand the potential, hype and future of aging in a digital world
Rhoda Goldman Plaza
2180 Post Street, San Franciso, Fully Accessible
Thursday, February 6, 2020
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Doors open at 5:30pm
Dinner will be served
Increasingly more software products, apps, and technological devices are developed with older adults in mind. At the same time, more of our lives are digitally connected. Still, many products fail to meet the needs of older adults.
Join us for a discussion with Dan Gillette, educator, researcher and designer, to better understand the potential, hype and future of aging in a digital world. The evening will include a panel discussion of current themes and opportunities, followed by an open discussion with all participants.
Some topics that will be addressed:
- What is on the horizon for digital technology in the home, including automation, communications, and surveillance
- How assistive and consumer technology are merging, in everything from hearing aids to smart speakers
- How digital commerce platforms, such as Uber, Amazon, and Instacart, are changing how and where people age in place
- How the Internet has become a great benefit, but also a new tool for fraud, especially for older adults
- How robots and artificial intelligence are changing work and leisure for older adults
- How consumers can be more involved in the development of new digital technologies
We invite you to bring your own consumer experience to the table!
RSVP here or call (510) 771-0116.
Suggested Donation: $20.
Season subscribers use discount code. Scholarships available.
Of Interest
AHWGO’s Janice Schwartz Receives the PhRMA Foundation Award in Excellence
The Award in Excellence program, now in its 17th year, honors former Foundation grant recipients for outstanding career achievements. Every year, PhRMA Foundation grants Awards in Excellence to past awardees who are dramatic, living proof that the Foundation program works and makes a difference. These awards are given to scientists who received a Foundation grant at the outset of their careers in a discipline important to the research-based pharmaceutical industry when they were deciding on their area of specialization and went on to distinguish themselves through their scientific and/or academic achievements.
Congratulations to the 2019 Awards in Excellence recipients, Janice B. Schwarz, MD, and Jay I. Goodman, PhD.
Janice Schwartz is not only our valued Board member but also a Professor of Medicine in Geriatrics and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco, is a board-certified internist and cardiologist with a distinguished record of leadership and research in clinical pharmacology and geriatric medicine. We are very proud of her and her accomplishments. Please join us in congratulating her.
Read the full article here
Seattle Department of Transportation: New Mobility Playbook
Seattle is setting a new standard for reforming transit. This Playbook is as flexible as it is groundbreaking,
with an extensive scope that addresses everything from shared transportation to data management to impacts on the local labor market.
Read the full Mobility Playbook by clicking the link below:
https://athomewithgrowingold.com/wp-content/uploads/NewMobility_Playbook_9.2017.pdf
Aging in Place: Tips on Making Home Safe and Accessible
Living at home as you age requires careful consideration and planning. Learn how you can make some changes to help maintain your independence.
Considerations for TNC Partnerships: Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities
“With rise of mobility options in the private sector, the promise of public-private partnerships is great. From first/last mile coverage to paratransit services, agreements with Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft can extend access to mobility to everyone in a community. Ridesourcing operations offer an exciting opportunity to provide on-demand service for individuals with disabilities and potentially delivering operational and management cost savings for agencies. With this innovation, agencies must consider the needs of individuals with disabilities and older adults as agreements are launched.
This informational brief, Considerations for TNC Partnerships: Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities, includes a checklist-type format to facilitate its use as agencies and others enter into agreements with non-traditional types of organizations to support mobility innovation.”
Judy Shanley, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice President, Education & Youth Transition Co-Director, FTA, NCMM
Click here to read the full report
Older People Projected to Outnumber Children for First Time in U.S. History
“By 2030, all baby boomers will be older than age 65. This will expand the size of the older population so that 1 in every 5 residents will be retirement age.”
Susanne Stadler: Life at Home and Aging in Community
A home for growing old gives us the opportunity to stay engaged and useful, remain part of our community, and build confidence when our abilities and strengths decline.
Watch this video of AHWGO’s Executive Director, Susanne Stadler, present a preview of the OLLI Course she taught in the Fall of 2018. In this presentation, Susanne highlights the values of designing for all ages & abilities and making our environment adapt to our needs. With her superb skill set and exemplary team of co-presenters, Susanne Stadler tackles the tough issues of aging at home and in the community.
Thank you to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Berkeley for hosting the event and the course.
If you are interested in having Susanne Stadler present or teach a course to your organization, please fill out the contact form and we can schedule a consultation.
FrameWorks Institute
“FrameWorks is the research partner for the Reframing Aging Project, an initiative of the Leaders of Aging Organizations (AARP, the American Federation for Aging Research, the American Geriatrics Society, the American Society on Aging, the Gerontological Society of America, Grantmakers in Aging, the National Council on Aging, and the National Hispanic Council on Aging.) Together they represent and have direct access to millions of older adults and thousands of individuals working in aging-related professions.”
You can read more on the great work Frameworks Institute is doing at https://www.frameworksinstitute.org/reframing-aging.h
A Home For All Ages In Memphis
A first-of-its-kind home adhering to the standard of “ageless design” was unveiled today in Memphis. The home is part of a groundbreaking effort by AARP, AARP Foundation, Home Matters, the Wells Fargo Housing Foundation, and The Home Depot Foundation, which challenged architects and designers through a nationwide competition to create new standards in home design that allows people to stay in their homes throughout their lives.
Healthy Aging Begins At Home
Right up our alley: The private home is one of the choices people need and want as they age. 2016_Federal Report_BPC-Healthy-Aging
Aging In America: 5 Key Issues
Listen to the great press briefing by Ken Dychtwald, CEO of Age Wave about the 5 critical issues concerning growing old in America. These issues need to be addressed now but are missing from the presidential debate. www.agewave.com/candidates .
Design x Technology + Medicine = Embolden Bodies
Something we have been talking at AHWGO becomes more of a reality through 3D printing. The designers and architects Charles and Ray Eames brought design many years ago into medicine but somehow this marriage was suspended until just now. Ted Talk illustrates possibilities.
After Centuries of Sameness We are Finally Seeing the End of Average
Interview on The Takeaway with Todd Rose, who just published the book ‘The End of Average’. We think that the aging demographics are one of the factors influencing this new way of thinking.http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/entering-age-individual/
People at the Center of Design
Read this wonderful piece by Valerie Fletcher, ED of the Institute of Human Centered Design. It is a clear explanation why Inclusive Design, design for all ages and abilities, is not only common sense but necessary if we want to respond to the needs of people who live on this planet. Inclusive-Universal Design, People at the Center of the Design Process, Routledge 12 15 small