Ageing Well with Assistive Technology: Co-producing technology solutions with older people

This scoping review of the evidence by the University of Stirling forms part of the resources being published by Stonewater Housing Association’s INVITE project - Promoting INclusive liVing vIa Technology-Enabled support Project - into how technology has enormous potential to support quality of life for older people, including those with age-related conditions such as dementia.

Released to coincide with Dementia Action Week, the report reveals that involvement and co-production is relatively limited, and many studies go no further than the design stage for new pieces of technology. Nevertheless, there are useful points of learning from research which examines how older people engage with and use different forms of technology in their homes. In particular, it recognises the ways in which technology has to be continually adapted to fit everyday life is crucial in order to understand how we can most effectively work with older people to explore new possibilities – from designing technology, to planning services and putting technology in place.