The reality of AI's promise to curb older adults' loneliness
Can an AI chatbot help older adults feel less lonely?
🚨 New in Fortune 🚨 ENHANCE researcher Wally Boot discusses the promise and the peril of using AI to combat loneliness in older adults. Can machines really offer social support, or are we missing something human?
Read more: fortune.com/well/2025/05...
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Extended Reality Solutions to Support Older Adults
This book explores the potential for using Extended Reality (XR) technology like VR and AR to support older adults with and without cognitive impairments
📖 New Book! How can XR transform aging? Extended Reality Solutions to Support Older Adults explores how VR & AR enhance health, independence, and quality of life for older adults—with and without cognitive impairments. #Aging #VR #XR #Gerontechnology.
📖 Learn more: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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🗣️💡 Can a simple tip card help older adults use voice-activated assistants for memory support? YES! 🎉 Our study shows that with the right guidance, VAAs can effectively support daily tasks—even for those with cognitive challenges.
Read more: 🔗 doi.org/10.4017/gt.2...
#Aging #AssistiveTech
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🌟 Thank you to everyone who joined our #ATIA2025 workshop on technology for aging and accessibility! 🙌 Grateful for the engaging discussions and insights—let’s keep advancing inclusive tech! 💡 #AssistiveTech #Aging #InclusiveDesign
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Founded in 1942, the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) is a nationwide, not-for-profit society of geriatrics healthcare professionals dedicated to improving the health, independence, and quality of life of older people.
We deliver the resources, tools, best practices and advocacy our nation needs to ensure that every person can age with health and financial security. #WeAgeWell
Visit us at: ncoa.org
The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to support and advance healthy aging through biomedical research. www.afar.org
Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) National Coordinating Center
Founded in 1945, we are the largest and most established interdisciplinary organization devoted to research, education, and practice in the field of aging.
The National Health & Aging Trends Study conducts annual in-person interviews with a nationally representative sample of US Medicare beneficiaries, & the National Study of Caregivers periodically gathers data on their family and unpaid carers. nhats.org
Works in disability with my own company Purple Advantage www.purpleadvantage.com. Particularly interested in making the world a more inclusive place for everyone. Loves studying (now: Exec MBA:writing publications on disability employment) sport and music.
Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? and Crippled.
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Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
Law Professor at Ulster Uni, Belfast. Co-Editor of Journal of Social Security Law. Former Vice-Chair of Social Security Advisory Committee. Writing a book on 'Legal participation for litigants in person: protecting the right to a fair trial.'
Editor/founder of Disability News Service; author of The Department, published by Pluto Books; disabled journalist and author; autistic.
Liverpool-based academic. Disability, medical humanities, genre fiction, neurodiversity, accessibility and inclusion in HE.
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Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Consultant clinical psychologist/ activist/ neuroqueer bluestocking. Former Lived Experience Practitioner. Future failed poet. Will question ideology for cake. 💜🎭🦓🥄🏳️🌈
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Providing information and advice about making your research open at the University of Sheffield.
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Disability rights & sausage pics. Author of Ramping Up Rights and columnist at The Canary. Book tour ⬇️ {She/they}
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Blind activist, Mama, accessibility professional and Londoner. Guided by the Diva Retriever. Sharing my blurry world view
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Disability: History, Politics, Media Analysis and more!
Recent ones include Disability and: | Star Trek | Ancient Egypt | Radicals | Gods | Film Analysis Tools | Feminists | Anarchists | and more!
Disability Rights Activist - DPAC
Co founder of Bromley & Croydon DPAC
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Socio-legal scholar; Co-director of openjusticecourtofprotection.org; Autistic; Wheelchair-user
Here for all things #OpenJustice, #MentalCapacity #DisabilityRights, #SocialCare, and #Advocacy
Also nature, textile crafts, Irish language - and cats 🐈...
I like people watching, good food and people who speak out about injustice. Crowdfunded #OpenJustice journalist, reporting mainly about #LearningDisability and #Autism. Also can be found with a needle, all things #sewing #quilting #knitting
