{"title":"Civilising technologies for an ageing society? The performativity of participatory methods in Socio-gerontechnology","authors":"Daniel Lopez Gomez, T. Criado","doi":"10.4324/9780429278266-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429278266-7","url":null,"abstract":"User involvement has become a standard requirement in technological innovations for ageing societies, the designing of social and healthcare services (Barnes and Bennet 1998), and in social and health research (Ray 2007). As advocated by older people’s associations and adopted in policy frameworks, the participation of older people has to be promoted due to a number of benefits for research and innovation:","PeriodicalId":269003,"journal":{"name":"Socio-gerontechnology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130804915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Age matters","authors":"Constance Lafontaine, K. Sawchuk","doi":"10.4324/9780429278266-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429278266-13","url":null,"abstract":"As you know May is national Older American’s Month. In Connecticut May 2007 is a very special Older American’s Month. It is special because in Connecticut we celebrate 50 years of serving older adults at the state level. Connecticut officially recognized the needs of our older citizens at the state level in 1957 when the State Legislature established the Commission on Services to Elderly Persons. This was the first separate state unit created in the nation to address aging issues. This Commission was designated the official State Unit on Aging in 1965 in order to accept federal money under the newly passed Older American’s Act. In 1969, the Commission became the State Department on Aging with the addition of state dollars. In 1993 the State Department on Aging was merged with other human service agencies and became the Elderly Services Division within the umbrella agency of the Department of Social Services (DSS). Presently, the State Unit on Aging is housed within DSS in the Bureau of Aging Community and Social Work Services.","PeriodicalId":269003,"journal":{"name":"Socio-gerontechnology","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124099765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}