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| Landscapes of cross-generational engagement | | Author(s) | Peter Wright, William Gaver, Mark Blythe |
| Corporate Author | New Dynamics of Ageing Programme - NDA; Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield |
| Publisher | New Dynamics of Ageing - NDA, Sheffield, 2013 |
| Pages | 8 pp (NDA Findings 16) |
| Source | NDA Research Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield S10 2TU. www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Assistive technology ; Information technology ; Engagement ; Residents [care homes] ; Projects ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | How can new interactive digital technologies be used to increase older people's engagement with the communities and younger people around them? The focus of this research was two groups of older old people (aged 80+) growing older together in two contrasting institutions: a Roman Catholic convent, and a residential care home. The research concludes that instead of designing for ageing populations, we should design for ageing members of many populations. Technologies for the older old can be designed to support deeper human values as well as pressing physical and functional needs. Design-led research can help us to think in new ways about what it means to grow old in place and suggest new roles for technology. Engaging older people in the design process leads to more acceptable technologies. The web pages http://di.ncl.ac.uk/blog/landscapes-of-cross-gener... and www.gold.ac.uk/interaction provide further details of the project. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130503006 P |
| Classmark | M: UVB: DN: KX: 3E: 3A:6KC * |
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