This is a website for sharing ideas and information about growing older and using technologies. By technologies we mean all kinds of gadgets and systems to help us in daily life, but especially new and emerging technologies using computing.
As for 'growing older', we are broadly talking about the over 50s .....but......
Each of us has our own experience of meeting, using and rejecting technologies, and sometimes ideas and dreams for the future.
So this website is intended as a focus for discussion and gathering together information about developments in technologies for:
As for 'growing older', we are broadly talking about the over 50s .....but......
- the 'over 50s' group is huge: from age 50 to 100+
- we are ALL growing older all the time
- people feel their age differently
Each of us has our own experience of meeting, using and rejecting technologies, and sometimes ideas and dreams for the future.
So this website is intended as a focus for discussion and gathering together information about developments in technologies for:
- social interaction
- entertainment
- education
- information
- health support
- ......and more......
Disclaimer:
This website was originally based on a series of seminars supported by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and organised by members of The Open University. You can see presentations from the seminars on the series pages, but the views expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of The Open University or ESRC. ESRC and The Open University take no responsibility for any material on these pages, which are the personal responsibility of Caroline Holland.
This website was originally based on a series of seminars supported by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and organised by members of The Open University. You can see presentations from the seminars on the series pages, but the views expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of The Open University or ESRC. ESRC and The Open University take no responsibility for any material on these pages, which are the personal responsibility of Caroline Holland.
