We have the technology to reinvent aging, so why aren't we using it?
From: Yahoo News - 05/08/2014
By: Jeneen Interlandi

"Despite their availability," writes Joe Coughlin, founding director of MIT's
AgeLab, "technology has not been widely adopted by older people or their
families." The reasons are easy enough to intuit: Seniors are
technology-phobic, or afraid of being stigmatized; they don't know what
products are available or where to find them; or they do know, but the
gadgets themselves are too expensive.

What's not so easy to intuit are solutions to those problems. In fact, in a
pipeline chock-full of invention, the most important breakthrough of all
might be a better understanding of the social and psychological forces that
shape technology adoption: How do seniors themselves think about their own
decline? What do they make of the technology that's being designed to help
them? And what will it take for them to adopt the Personal Emergency Response
System of tomorrow? 

Read the entire article, browse photo galleries, and view a video (1:31) at:
http://news.yahoo.com/we-have-the-technology-to-reinvent-aging--so-why-aren-t-we-using-it-164523956.html

Link:
MIT's AgeLab
http://agelab.mit.edu/

Submitted by Bruce Fleming