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Teaching Older Adults Tech for Health in Communities

In an era where digital technology shapes every aspect of modern life, empowering older adults to harness these innovations for health management is a growing priority. The groundb...

AI vs. Ageism: The Tech Industry’s Great Reset

In the cutthroat world of technology, ageism has long cast a shadow over seasoned professionals. Layoffs targeting workers over 50 — epitomized by recent waves at Meta, Google, and...

Technology | AI at My Age?

Older adults, like people in other age groups, can benefit from artificial intelligence tools but also must be aware of the risks that AI can pose in their personal and work lives.

Aging in Place: How Technology Might Help You Grow Old at Home

The budding field is turning dreams into reality for older adults who are eager to age in place, filling caregiving gaps and easing minds as America ages rapidly.

ChatGPT offers up blog analysis of AgeTech as seen in 2009 and 2025

This Aging in Place Tech blog was launched officially in 2009. We asked ChatGPT to give the December, 2009 blogs a review and compare them to October, 2025 blogs to see what change...

Senate hearing looks at fall detection and prevention technology – will it help?

Falls are a serious problem among the oldest adults.  No one can question the statistics - falls are the leading cause of injury-related death among adults ages 65 and older, and t...

How old is that cow?

New technology is looking to take the guesswork and hassle out of aging cows.

Restoration Projects 6 Active-Aging Biomarkers: Why Biological Age Tracking Is Becoming a Key Health Trend for June 2026

For decades, most people judged aging by a single number: the candles on a birthday cake. However, a growing number of health researchers, wellness clinics,...

Free software lets laptops simulate how aging evolves under selection

Why do some species live for only weeks while others survive for centuries? Researchers at the Leibniz Institute on Aging—Fritz Lipmann Institute (FLI) in Jena have developed AEGIS...

Technology That Works for You, Not Against You

Technology is supposed to make life easier, but for many older adults, it often does the opposite: tiny buttons constant updates too many apps passwords that never seem to work scr...

Innovation Line: Technology is maturing with age

As EuroShop celebrated its 60th birthday this February in Düsseldorf, Germany, there was one overarching theme that emerged at the “world’s number one retail trade fair” writes Tob...

AI is coming for our aging parents, ready or not

Housing authorities expand use of smart technologies to support elderly

Hong Kong’s housing authorities will expand the use of smart technologies, such as door sensors, in-home fall detectors and stair climbers, to enhance safety and convenience for el...

Cutting-Edge Genomic Techniques Reveal Unexpected Cellular Changes in the Aging Brain

Aging is a complex and multifaceted process marked by gradual biological transformations that affect virtually all cells within the body. Despite decades of research, much about ho...

Aging is Soon to Be a Preventable Disease

For most of human history, cellular aging was treated as biologically fixed, an inevitable accumulation of damage with no meaningful pathway to reversal. That assumption is no long...

An Anti-anti-aging eyewear brand bets America is finally ready to embrace getting older

In Japan, there is a national public holiday called Keiro no Hi—Respect for our Elders Day—dedicated to honoring the wisdom of the generations that have come before us. In Hindu tr...

Designing for Time: Material Aging as a Design Strategy

The figure of Tithonus in Greek mythology offers a reflection on the paradox of permanence. In pleading with Zeus for immortality, he forgot to request eternal youth, resulting in...

6 Reasons Biological Age Tracking Is Becoming a Major 2026 Health Trend for Older Adults

Many older adults are beginning to realize that the number on their birthday cake may not tell the full story about their health. Biological age...

Why are astronauts using aging tech? NASA spaceflight expert has the answers

NASA explains why astronauts use older tech in space missions, prioritizing reliability, testing, and cost over cutting-edge hardware.

What does it really mean to ‘age well’?

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — When we think about the quest to slow aging, perhaps no one is more monomaniacal about the pursuit than American tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson, who rep...

Senior living -- can tech improve the product that no one wants to buy

If your older family members are like most, they do not want to move to senior living. Life expectancy for the 65+ is another 20 years (both men and women).  For those who love the...

Aging is inevitable — catastrophic decline is not

You're likely familiar with the cultural script on aging.It reads less like a list of life stages and more like a slow-motion obituary. Hit 50, and the back gives out. Hit 60, and...

Planned Obsolescence: The Silent Sabotage of the Devices We Depend On

By Stephen Zogopoulos, USNN World News The Illusion of Progress Walk into any electronics store today and you’ll see the promise of innovation—sleeker smartphones, faster tablets,...