AAL Forum 2019: Ambient Assistive Living ecosystems for the life-course: Inclusive, innovative and reflective

The existing AAL ecosystems for the life-course include both the technologies, the decision makers, and people affected from the technologies. The new and emerging systems are pushing boundaries to answer the bottom-up defined needs of the population in their wish to stay connected, social, independent, as well as to age with more dignity and enjoyment. 

However,  there  are  many  challenges  involved  in  developing  these  types  of systems. Developing and deploying innovative multi-stakeholder systems for an emerging,  not  yet  fully  explored,  social  change  is  a  major  challenge.  Growing older, being old and belonging to a demographic group can all mean different things at different times. Older people’s abilities, their life experience, the cultural and social infrastructures that surround them are all diverse. Furthermore, older people may face some sort of physical, sensory or cognitive limitations associated with the biological ageing process. The market for AAL systems and technologies is not yet well enough established to deal with all of these complexities. 

Our  aim  is  to  define  the  changing  role  of  the  technologies  within  the changing context of ageing. We organise expert workshops, and give keynotes in key academic and business get-togethers to explore the potentials of AAL ecosystems, and to raise awareness on the humanistic perspectives of the AAL ecosystems:

2020 (postponed) https://www.icchp.org/session/17277

2018

Future Perspectives for Aging Well: AAL Tools, Products, Services Jean D. Hallewell Haslwanter, Markus Garschall, Katja Neureiter, Paul Panek, Özge Subasi https://www.springerprofessional.de/future-perspectives-for-aging-well-aal-tools-products-services/15898390

The job market of AAL. Which candidates are we looking for? AAL Forum 2018, Bilbao.