Socio-gerontechnology: Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology

✍ Scribed by Alexander Peine, Barbara L. Marshall, Wendy Martin, Louis Neven

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 279
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Note on contributors
Note on editors
1 Socio-gerontechnology: key themes, future agendas
2 Age, actors and agency: what we can learn from Age Studies and STS for the development of Socio-gerontechnology
PART I Bridges: critical frameworks of ageing and technology
3 Fragile robots and coincidental innovation: turning Socio-gerontechnology towards ontology
4 Topographies of ageing: a new materialist analysis of ageing-in-place
5 Elderliness: the agential inseparability of ageing and assistive technologies
6 Civilising technologies for an ageing society? The performativity of participatory methods in Socio-gerontechnology
7 Agents or actants: what technology might make of later life?
8 Commentary: re-imagining the ageing and technology nexus
PART II Encounters: empirical approaches to ageing and technology
9 ‘Send me a WhatsApp when you arrive home’: mediated practices of caring about
10 Making and unmaking ageing-in-place: towards a co-constructive understanding of ageing and place
11 Age matters: senior exclusions, designing consultations and a municipal action plan for age-(un)friendly cities
12 Dementia scripts
13 Between repair and bricolage: digital entanglements and fragile connections in dementia care work in Denmark
14 Commentary: encountering ageing, science and technology - whose future? Whose definition of ageing?
PART III Design: critical reflections and new approaches
15 Configuring the older adult: how age and ageing are re-configured in gerontechnology design
16 Co-designing technologies for care: spaces of co-habitation
17 How have user representations been sustained and recreated in the design of technologies between 1960 and 2020?
18 Commentary: technology, design and the 3Ps - the problem of problematising ageing as problematic
19 Afterword: why Socio-gerontechnology today
Index

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