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Healthy aging is an increasingly urgent global challenge as life expectancies continue to rise and as the growth of older segments of the population outpaces younger segments in most regions. Recognizing there is great diversity in how people age and that inequities throughout the life course directly contribute to health, social, and economic disparities in older adults, innovative solutions are needed to address the range of health needs of this population and the societal and economic impact of this demographic transition. Healthy aging requires a paradigm shift towards a more holistic view of aging focused on functional ability and wellbeing.
Through A Dialogue on the Future of Healthy Aging , Firefly Innovations and the IE Center of Social Innovation are teaming up to lead a transdisciplinary effort to envision the future of aging. By delivering these sessions, we aim to:
- Establish the current evidence base of best practices in healthy aging across diverse sectors
- Develop a network of cross-sectoral stakeholders to accelerate a movement towards healthy aging
- Design a pipeline of activities aimed at fostering and scaling up innovations in healthy aging
About this Lecture:
Technology-focused Research on Healthy Aging
There are several moments in life which force us to learn new ways of doing things or adapt to new circumstances, such as taking care of a loved one, discovering we have a chronic disease, keeping up with medical doctors’ indications, including medical restrictions at work. Technology is everywhere and can assist us through transformations, but more often than not, it seems like those who design technology do not understand what it is really like to live with the challenges.
From highly usable mobile technology, designed together with a wide array of users to guarantee meaningfulness, to research to promote the creation of healthy workplaces, Fraunhofer AICOS 10 years’ experience in the development of innovative, intuitive, accessible and ubiquitous technological solutions will set the tone for another Dialogue on the Future of Healthy Aging.
About the speaker:
Liliana Ferreira is the Director of the Fraunhofer Research Center for Assistive Information and Communication Solutions (AICOS) in Portugal and Full Professor Invited at Department of Informatics of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Her research focuses mainly on the areas of Natural Language Processing, Medical Knowledge Representation, Information Extraction, and Health Informatics. Liliana has formerly developed her research in industry and research organizations as Philips Research Eindhoven (NL), IBM Research and Development Böblingen (DE), the Institute of Electronics and Telematics Engineering of Aveiro (PT), the Ubiquitous Knowledge Lab of the Technical University of Darmstadt (DE) and the University of Tübingen (DE).
About the series “A Dialogue on the Future of Healthy Aging”:
This series is delivered by Firefly Innovations and the IE Center of Social Innovation. The program is made possible by the Center for Systems and Community Design of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy and the NYU-CUNY Prevention Research Center.
A Dialogue on the Future of Healthy Aging is a special collection of talks as part of the Systems Change Series, a monthly lecture and workshop series hosted by the Center for Systems and Community Design that creates space for distinguished scholars, practitioners and entrepreneurs across a broad range of sectors to share the ways in which they work at the forefront of incorporating systems and design thinking into their respective practices.
