Socio-gerontechnology

Alexander Peine is Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Over the last ten years, he has developed an interdisciplinary research agenda on the use and design of technologies for older people that combines ideas from STS and Age Studies. Barbara L. Marshall is Professor of Sociology at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. She has written extensively on ageing, gender, sexuality and technology. Her current research explores ageing and digital technologies as these are reconfiguring embodiment and experiences of later life. Wendy Martin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University London. Her research focuses on ageing, embodiment, and the digital and everyday life. Wendy is a member of the Executive Committee of British Society of Gerontology and Co-Editor of Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology. Louis Neven is a lector (professor) and leads the Active Ageing research group at the Caring Society Centre of Expertise of Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda, the Netherlands. He has a long-standing interest in the design and use of technologies for older people.

1. Socio-gerontechnology – Key Themes, Future Agendas

2. Age, Actors and Agency – What We Can Learn from Age Studies and STS for the Development of Socio-gerontechnology

Part I: Bridges - Critical Frameworks of Ageing and Technology

3. Fragile Robots and Coincidental Innovation: Turning Socio-gerontechnology towards Ontology

4. Topographies of Ageing: A New Materialist Analysis of Ageing-in-place

6. Civilising Technologies for an Ageing Society? The Performativity of Participatory Methods in Socio-gerontechnology

7. Agents or Actants: What Technology Might Make of Later Life?

8. Commentary: Re-imaging the Ageing and Technology Nexus

Part II: Encounters - Empirical Approaches to Ageing and Technology

9. "Send Me a Whatsapp When You Arrive Home": Mediated Practices of Caring About

10. Making and Unmaking Ageing in Place: Towards a Co-constructive Understanding of Ageing and Place

11. Age Matters: Senior Exclusions, Designing Consultations and a Municipal Action Plan for Age-(Un)Friendly Cities

12. Dementia Scripts

13. Between Repair and Bricolage: Digital Entanglements and Fragile Connections in Dementia Care Work in Denmark

14. Commentary: Encountering Ageing, Science, and Technology – Whose Future? Whose Definition of Ageing?

Part III: Design - Critical Reflections and New Approaches

15. Configuring the Older Adult: How Age and Ageing are Re-configured in Gerontechnology Design

16. Co-designing Technologies for Care: Spaces of Co-habitation

17. How Have User Representations Been Sustained and Recreated in the Design of Technologies Between 1960 and 2020?

18. Commentary: Technology, Design, and the 3Ps – the Problem of Problematising Ageing as Problematic

19. Afterword: Why Socio-gerontechnology Today