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SERIES OF WORKSHOPS ON THE AGEING
SOCIETY
ARCHITECTURES AND MODELS
FOR A SUSTAINABLE CARE
Organized under the auspices of the United Nations University
by ISMB‐Politecnico di Torino and Hokkaido University,
in cooperation with Banca d’Italia,
the German Institute for Japanese Studies, Chatham House
and CSAI@Università di Milano‐Bicocca
http://www.csai.disco.unimib.it/CSAI/SWAS/
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Workshop 2
Focus: TECHNOLOGY
German Institute for Japanese Studies
Tokyo - March 1st, 2010
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• The SWAS Project
• Excerpts from Workshop 1
• Workshop 2 Positioning
Agenda
The Technology Realm: the territory of needs
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The SWAS Project
• Recall of the format
• Update on the programme
Symposium
Additional workshops
Conference
Summer School
• A couple of main points
SWAS
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The senior tsunami: survive it or surf it?
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The new seniors
•Many, wealthy, educated and demanding
•Independent living at home
•Will they redefine ageing?
SWAS
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The double challenge
From Workshop 1
Workforce per pensioner vs. need for care workers
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Can technology be the answer?
From Workshop 1
• Two lines of possible intervention: policies for the
short/medium/long term:
technology vs. natality/socially based
• Technology is pervasive and will be more
(ICT networking, mecatronics, robotics, domotics)
the cost/payment dilemma: who for what?
sustaining/radical/disruptive innovation
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Knowledge and acceptance of technology
To Workshop 2
What we know on the technologies for the aged people:
End-user
Community
Scientific literature
Grey literature
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What do aged people want?
What do people think?
•Care technology is ok?
•Concerns about loneliness
•Care sector needs support?
•User-friendly interface and technical security are key
To Workshop 2
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Scientific literature
To Workshop 2
• “Despite the acclamation that ICTs for older adults is ‘a social necessity
and an economic opportunity’ we are far from knowing what types of ATs
and ICTs work well with what types of users under what conditions and for
how long.”
• “The research to date provides suggestions and tantalizing hints, but the
accumulated lessons learned that can be generalized across age, gender
and nationality groups are few.”
• “Despite a fair number of research studies, they have not been conclusive
in sending a clear message to the practice community.”
[Blaschke, Freddolino, Mullen,
“Ageing and Technology: A Review of the Research Literature”]
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Grey literature
To Workshop 2
• AGELIB-AgeLibrary is a combination of library catalogue and digital
library, a database of the ageing-related resources of the UNC-
University of North Carolina IOA-Institute on Aging Information Center.
• Among the materials, all of them ageing-related, included in AGELIB
are: Books & monographs; Journals, newsletters, and other periodicals;
Reports, unpublished papers, and other "grey literature”; Web sites;
Digital documents; Audiovisual materials; as well the access to the
AgeLine Thesaurus of Aging Terminology
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To Workshop 2
Assessing priorities for technology recommending
Technologies for the Aged People:
well known? well classified? dedicated or adapted?
real benefits? real solutions? real context?
is the impact of the deployment of technologies for the
aged people socially sustainable?
is the sustainability modeled in some static or dynamic
scenario/model?
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Policies for technology deployment
To Workshop 2
Creation of new models of comparison of different approaches
in order to explore The Technology Realm: from the territory
of needs to the geography of constraints
The top-down approach: RISTEX (nested structure of
coordinated systems and subsystems)
The network approach: GAL (focus on the dynamics of
relationships to gain efficiency and efficacy through
communities of practices coordination)
The bottom-up approach: EU (the coordination structure
emerge from the dynamics of distributed autonomous local
entities)
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The top-down approach: RISTEX
To Workshop 2
RISTEX-Research Institute of Science for Society was established
under the umbrella of JST-Japan Science and Technology* on the
initiative of MEXT in 2001 to promote R&D for solving social problems
*JST-Japan Science and Technology is a core organization for the implementation Japan’s S&T policy in line with the objectives
of the S&T Basic Plan
RISTEX aims to create and launch new social and public values by:
• Identifying social problems
• Establishing R&D focus areas and promoting R&D
• Producing and experimenting with “proto-types”
• Assisting the application of “proto-types” to wider areas
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RISTEX R&D outline
Objective
To Workshop 2
• To provide support for R&D aimed at solving concrete issues in society
Special features
• Concrete results will be acquired, aimed at implementation within society
• The latest knowledge and methods not only in natural sciences but also the
humanities and social science will be used
• Joint work among stakeholders (industry, academia, government, civic groups etc.)
Size duration
• R&D focus areas : 6 years / 2 billion yen
• R&D project : 3years max. 20 to 30 million yen / 1 year (max. 60 to 90 million yen /
PJ)
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The network approach: GAL
To Workshop 2
The aim of the Lower Saxony Research Network Design of
Environments for Ageing - Information and Communication
Technologies for Promoting and Sustaining Quality of Life, Health
and Self-sufficiency in the Second Half of Life - (GAL) is:
• to identify, to enhance and to evaluate new techniques of
information and communication technology for design of
environments for ageing (scientific aim), as well as
• to enable the Lower Saxony Research Institutions to participate as
a leading actor in national and international research projects within
this topic (research strategy)
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The partners of the GAL network
To Workshop 2
The research network GAL consists of several institutions: OFFIS -
Institute for Information Technology (Oldenburg), Technical
University Brunswick, Hannover Medical School, Carl von
Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Center of Competence H-Tech
(Oldenburg), Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology,
project group Hearing, Speech and Audio Technology (Oldenburg),
Zentrum Altern und Gesellschaft at University of Vechta, University
of Osnabruk, research group Geriatrics at Charite (Berlin),
University of Potsdam.
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The bottom-up approach: EU
To Workshop 2
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, The
Council, The European Economic and Social Committee and The
Committee of the Regions
Ageing well in the Information Society
An i2010 Initiative
Action Plan on Information and Communication Technologies and
Ageing
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To Workshop 2
EU Challenge 5 – ICT for Health, Ageing Well,
Inclusion and Governance
1. Personal Health Systems
2. Virtual Physiological Human
3. Health infostructure for patient empowerment, safety and enhanced
research
4. ICT for ageing well
5. ICT for smart and personalised inclusion
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“Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter”
Mark Twain
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