Older People and Technological inclusion: multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary realities and aspirations
Lead Research Organisation:
The Open University
Department Name: Faculty of Health & Social Care
Abstract
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Publications
Piczak ML
(2023)
Spatial ecology of non-native common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Lake Ontario with implications for management.
in Aquatic sciences
| Description | ESRC Impact Award |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Oxford Institute of Population Ageing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | New collaboration with Oxford University, in association with Samsung, AgeUKMK and CarersMK to increase impact of findings from a study of use of wearables by people age over 55 (funded by Sir Haley Stewart Trust). P.I Professor Shailey Minocha (OU) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data from the Sir Haley Stewart Trust - funded project, complemented by new data produced during this award. |
| Impact | http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/documents/raise/knowledge_exchange/briefing_papers/series7/minocha140318.pdf |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Netwell |
| Organisation | Dundalk Institute of Technology |
| Department | Netwell Centre |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Lead writer on report of WP1 for 'Value Ageing' |
| Collaborator Contribution | Supervision of EU funded Marie Curie secondment |
| Impact | ICT developments impacting on dignity and non-discrimination of older citizens (multidisciplinary: gerontology, psychology, design, computer science) |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | OU Wearables |
| Organisation | Medilink West Midlands |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | With other members of the research team, I have initiated a new, outward-facing, cross-university research network group focussed on wearable technologies. The network launches in May 2017 with an event and a new website (tba) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Medilink West Midlands is organising an event including hiring a venue and making contacts with business and industry |
| Impact | Multi-disciplinary: social science, gerontology, computer science, HCI, nursing, biological sciences, data science |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | PROGRESSIVE STANDARDS AROUND ICT FOR ACTIVE AND HEALTHY AGEING |
| Organisation | De Montfort University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Participation in work packages including: website development; co-production guidelines; standards on age-friendly housing and cities; dissemination |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-ordinator |
| Impact | The PROGRESSIVE project will provide a dynamic and sustainable framework for standards and standardisation around ICT for AHA. The project is pan-European but also draw on wider international experience - especially in the contexts of interoperability and standards harmonisation. As attitudes towards ageing change there is recognition of the importance of older people's engagement. Engagement can empower. It can encourage and facilitate greater involvement of older people in economic and political life as well as within communities and families. It follows that the inclusion of older people must be integral to ways of thinking about standards for ICT for AHA. Traditional top-down, clinically driven approaches to standards often fail to recognise the importance of such engagement and overlook the opportunity of co-production approaches. A strongly ethical approach is adopted in the PROGRESSIVE project. It uses responsible research and innovation (RRI) as a key reference point. The new way of thinking adopted involves a dialogue that moves from what can be a formulaic standards and service 'delivery' model in favour of provision in ways that take fuller account of needs and choices of older people. The PROGRESSIVE project recognises four domains - age friendly communities; reformed and empowering services; accessible, affordable and supportive homes; and active, health and empowered older people and 22 fields (Fig 1). Within these it acknowledges the commercial opportunities of the 'silver economy' - both as a market for goods and services and as a milieu where older people can be assets and active contributors. The PROGRESSIVE project will establish parameters by which good practice in standards and the standardisation process around ICT for AHA can be identified. A platform to be developed will promote discussion and debate. The work will lay the foundation for standards that will be increasingly fit for purpose - with potential benefits to all our lives. |
| Start Year | 2016 |