Agetech, Cognitive Health, and Dementia

Agetech, Cognitive Health, and Dementia

By Andrew Sixsmith, Judith Sixsmith, Mei Lan Fang, and Becky Horst

This book explores the ways in which AgeTech can contribute to healthy cognitive aging and support the independence of people with dementia. Technology can play a key role in supporting the health, independence, and well-being of older adults, particularly as a response to rapid worldwide population aging.

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Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
Publish Date: 09/24/2020
Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781681739014
ISBN-10: 1681739011
Language: English

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This book explores the ways in which AgeTech can contribute to healthy cognitive aging and support the independence of people with dementia. Technology can play a key role in supporting the health, independence, and well-being of older adults, particularly as a response to rapid worldwide population aging. AgeTech refers to the use of technologies, such as information and communication technologies (ICTs), robotics, mobile technologies, artificial intelligence, ambient systems, and pervasive computing to drive technology-based innovation to benefit older adults. AgeTech has the potential to provide new ways of meeting the growing demands on health and social care services to support people to stay healthy and active. As such, AgeTech represents an increasingly important market sector within world economies. The book also addresses some of the research, innovation, and policy challenges that need to be resolved if technology-based products and services are to fulfill their potential and deliver real-world impacts to improve the lives of older adults and their carers, thus promoting more inclusive communities for the benefit of all.

About the Authors

Andrew Sixsmith, Ph. D. is the joint Scientific Director of AGE-WELL Network of Centres of Excellence (NCE), the Director of Simon Fraser University's (SFU) Science and Technology for Aging Research (STAR) Institute, and a professor in the Department of Gerontology at SFU.

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Judith Sixsmith, Ph. D. is a Professor in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Dundee. Her research interests reside in the areas of public health and social care where she explores the ways in which people living in disadvantaged communities experience processes of marginalization, taking care to include the voices of people who are seldom heard.

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Mei Lan Fang, Ph. D. is an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Dundee. With a background in public health, specializing in social and health inequities, she has applied this lens in her research working across health disciplines and sectors as a transdisciplinary scientist and health sciences methodologist.

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Becky Horst, M. Sc. is a current Cognitive Neuroscience Ph. D. student at Western University. With a background in kinesiology and neuroanatomy, her thesis work largely revolves around projects that integrate exercise psychology, neuroanatomy, and cognition.

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