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Digital Ageism

Mobile communication and later life: From theories to empirical frescoes

2026

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol

Self-Help Devices, Technology Adoption

Innovation in Toilet Hygiene – A Meta-Review of the Use of Automated Bidets to Reduce Caregiver Burden for Seniors

2026

Paul Joseph (“PJ”) Fameli

Assistive Technology, Caregiving

Umsorgendes Ambiente. Reproduktionsarbeit im technisch betreuten Wohnen

2026

Mathias Denecke

The Effect of Information and Communication Technology and Social Networking Site Use on Older People’s Well-Being in Relation to Loneliness: Review of Experimental Studies

2021

Daniele Zaccaria

Assessing the impact of Social Networking Site use on older people’s loneliness and social isolation. A randomized controlled trial: The Aging in a Networked Society-Social Experiment Study

2020

Daniele Zaccaria

The J-shaped evolution of subjective wellbeing over the life course in rural China

2025

The relationship between rural to urban migration in China and risk of depression in later life: An investigation of life course effects

2021

Ageing, migration and grandparenting in China

2025

Remote recruiting and video-interviewing older people: a research note on a qualitative case study carried out in the first Covid-19 Red Zone in Europe

2021

Daniele Zaccaria

Digital gaming as a proactive choice and a passive resource among older adults in China

2025

Ageism in the media: Online representations of older people

2021

Creating age-friendly environments in a smart society in China: A policy review

2025

The benefits of community-based participatory arts activities for people living with dementia: a thematic scoping review

2021

Meghánn Catherine Ward

Change Ahead—Emerging Life-Course Transitions as Practical Accomplishments of Growing Old(er).

2019

Spaces of Liminality, Places of Creative Assemblage: A Multi‐Arts Setting for People Living with Dementia in Northwest England

2025

Meghánn Catherine Ward

Spacetimematter of aging – The material temporalities of later life

2023

Representing the “older end user”? Challenging the role of social scientists in the field of “active and assisted living.”

2019

Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging with Technology

2018

Special issue: The growing older of humans, nonhumans, and more-than-humans, Journal of Aging Studies

2024

Michela Cozza, Anna Wanka

Catching the Digital Train on Time: Older Adults, Continuity, and Digital Inclusion

2023

Cora van Leeuwen

Connected older citizens: Ageing in place and digitally mediated care in Aotearoa New Zealand

2025

Blind Spots in AI: The Role of Serendipity and Equity in Algorithm-Based Decision-Making

2021

Cora van Leeuwen

‘Being’ and ‘doing’ well in the moment: Theoretical and relational contributions of health geography to living well with dementia

2024

Meghánn Catherine Ward

Meanings of ‘lifecycle robust neighbourhoods’: constructing versus attaching to places

2018

How older people experience the age-friendliness of The Hague: A quantitative study

2022

Conflicting notions of citizenship in old age: An analysis of an activation practice

Towards a better understanding of the sense of safety and security of community-dwelling older adults

2022

Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: State of the Art and Future Perspectives

Editorial – Ageing communities, supportive housing and enabling built environments

2020

Age-friendly cities in the Netherlands: An explorative study of facilitators and hindrances in the built environment and ageism in design

2020

Invisible in the smart city: Using participatory design methods for age-friendly solutions

2022

Cora van Leeuwen

Photovoicing the neighbourhood: Understanding the situated meaning of intangible places for ageing-in-place

2017

Maybe we should talk about it anyway”: a qualitative study of understanding expectations and use of an established technology innovation in caring practices

2017

The personal emergency response system as a technology innovation in primary health care services: An integrative review

2016

Digital assistive technology acceptance and use among caregivers of older adults with cognitive impairment: Qualitative interview study

2026

Old-age care in digital transformation: Lessons from the Finnish wellbeing service county reform

2026

Virtual reality and its use in care homes and beyond

2022

Věra Suchomelová

Virtual Reality as a Tool for Keeping the Elderly Active: Selected Issues

2021

Věra Suchomelová

Involving the community in ageing policy design: The Cascais Protocol”

2024

Gustavo Sugahara

Spirituality in Old Age

2021

Věra Suchomelová

Knitting alone – in the city – ageing and kinship availability as a vulnerability marker

2020

Gustavo Sugahara

A Critical Approach to the Demographics of Ageing: The Case of Oslo.

2017

Gustavo Sugahara

Seniors online: Attitudes toward the internet and coping with everyday life

2018

Alexander Seifert

Older people negotiating independence and safety in everyday life using technology: Qualitative study

2018

Smart mobility, age and data justice

2021

Upskilling the Old, a Quarter Century on: Media Literacies, AI and Older People in Public Policy Discourses

2025

Predictors, types of Internet use, and the psychological well-being of older adults: A comprehensive model

2022

Age bias on the move: The case of smart mobility

2023

Use of information and communication technology (ICT) devices among the oldest-old: Loneliness, anomie, and autonomy

2020

Alexander Seifert

Older adults’ perceived sense of social exclusion from the digital world

2018

Alexander Seifert

Loneliness as a Potential Mechanism of the Association Between Ageism and Mental Health Outcomes in the Chilean Context

2023

Motives of Use and Internet Addiction: Development and Evidence of Validity of a Scale to Evaluate Motives of Internet Use

2022

Latet Anguis in herba: Unveiling ageism of generative Ai

2025

‘Single‐handed care’ initiatives and reviews of double‐handed homecare packages: A survey of practices in English local authorities with adult social care responsibilities

2022

Peter’s Problem. An Analysis of the Imaginaries about Automated Futures Portrayed in QualityLand

2024

Educational Gerontechnology: Toward a Comprehensive Model for the Education of DigitalTechnologies for Older Adults

2024

Digital Ageism: How it operates and approaches to tackling it

2023

Navigating uncharted territory with a borrowed map: lessons from setting up the BATH-OUT-2 randomised controlled trial in adult social care and housing services in English local authorities.

2024

Normative puzzles for local government: Managing the introduction of single‐handed care in England

2023

Participatory Design and the Divide between Developers and Older Adults

2021

Katja Antonia Rießenberger

Development of a Learning Management System for Knowledge Transfer in Engineering

2021

Katja Antonia Rießenberger

Collaborative Speculations on Future Themes for Participatory Design in Germany

2022

Katja Antonia Rießenberger

The Co-constitution of Ageing and Technology – A Model and Agenda

2020

Alexander Peine

A research tool for measuring non-participation of older people in research on digital health

2019

WisdomOfAge: Developing a Seniors Digital Platform for Knowledge Transfer through Participatory Design

2022

Katja Antonia Rießenberger

Designing and evaluating information and communication technology-based interventions? Be aware of the needs of older people

2020

Older People in Digital Health Research: What Predicts (Non-)Participation in an Exergame Intervention Study

2020

The Co-constitution of Ageing and Technology – A Model and Agenda

2021

Ageing as a Driver of Progressive Politics? What the European Silver Economy Teaches Us About the Co-Constitution of Ageing and Innovation

2022

Alexander Peine

Older TikTokers in Digital Capitalism: Construction of Persona and Agency

2025

Individual and shared digital repertoires – older adults managing digital services

2023

Digitaalinen yhteiskunta ja ikääntyneet: Kohti yhdenvertaisuutta. Politiikasta.fi

2023

Objects of Loss: Resilience and Continuity in Material Culture Relationships in Newman

2018

Helen Manchester

Supportive care for older people with dementia: socio-organisational implications

2022

Francesco Miele

On the persistence of coercive practices in dementia treatment. When plans, spaces, and discourses matter

2022

Francesco Miele

On care infrastructures and health practices: How people in health promotion programmes try to change their everyday life

2022

Francesco Miele

From Triple Win to Triple Sin: How a Problematic Future Discourse is Shaping the Way People Age with Technology

2017

DIY gerontechnology: circumventing mismatched technologies and bureaucratic procedure by creating care technologies of one’s own

2020

From Intervention to Co-constitution: New Directions in Theorizing about Aging and Technology

2018

Preventing Premature Family Maladjustment: Protocol for a Multidisciplinary eHealth Study on Preterm Parents’ Well-Being

2025

Caring in the Digital Age : Implications of a Telehealth Self-evaluation Tool for Informal Caregivers in Québec, Canada.

2025

Camille Normandin

Beyond Landscape’s Visible Realm: Recorded sound, nature and wellbeing. Health and Place

2019

Helen Manchester

The use of mobile technology for online shopping and entertainment among older adults in Finland

2017

Sanna Kuoppamäki

Digital participation in service environments among senior electricity consumers in Finland

2018

Sanna Kuoppamäki

Digital mobile technology enhancing social connectedness among older adults in Sweden

2020

Sanna Kuoppamäki

Autonomy, Integration, and the Work of Cultural Intermediation in Indie Games

2019

Older people, video games and the European French-language press : A topic model approach on a study about deviance, discipline and self-improvement

2017

Gabrielle Lavenir

Home-care Professionals’ Ethical Perceptions of the Development and Use of Home-care Robots for Older Adults in Japan

2020

Havens and Heavens of Ageing-in-Community: Home, Care and Age in Senior Co-housing

2020

Gabrielle Lavenir

What if ANT wouldn’t pursue agnosticism but care?

2019

Little arrangements that matter. Rethinking autonomy-enabling innovations for later life

2015

Regulating for careful knowledge production: researching older people, isolation and loneliness

2020

Helen Manchester

Measuring the impact of age, gender and dementia on communication-robot interventions in residential care homes

2020

Remote recruiting and video-interviewing older people: a research note on a qualitative case study carried out in the first Covid-19 Red Zone in Europe

La digitalizzazione dei servizi alla prova della terza età

2024

Can connected technologies improve sleep quality and safety of older adults and caregivers? An evaluation study of sleep monitors and communicative robots at a residential care home in Japan

2020

Rights Violations and Discriminatory Practices Against Older Persons During the Covid-19 Pandemic.

2021

Contrasting ageism in research on older adults and digital technologies: A methodological reflection

2023

Ageing and technologies – Creating a vision of care in times of digitization.

2020

Ageing and technologies – Creating a vision of care in times of digitisation. Results of a fast-track process of the Joint Programming Initiative

2021

Neue Technologien in der Pflege

2021

Ageism in the use and design of digital technology: a theoretical model

2023

Ideology, power and inclusion: using the critical perspective to study how older ICT users make sense of digitization

2018

Magdalena Kania Lundholm

It is not a pill

2019

Doing good: autonomy in the margins of welfare

2020

Doing data together–affective relations and mobile ethnography in home visits

2020

Socio-gerontechnology – Key Themes, Future Agendas

2021

Ageism and (Successful) Digital Engagement: A Proposed Theoretical Model

2024

Socio-gerontechnology: Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology

2021

Wendy Martin, Alexander Peine, Louis Neven

‘Forever ‘Becoming’? Negotiating Gendered and Ageing Embodiment in Everyday Life’

2020

Slow side of the divide? Older non-users discussing social acceleration, social change and digital exclusion

2019

Magdalena Kania Lundholm

Literature review of health equity indicators among Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries or regions and Taiwan

2024

A Study of the Key Sustainable Factors of Taiwan’s Community Care Centers

2022

The waves that sweep away: older ICT (non)-users’ experiences of digitalization

2020

Magdalena Kania Lundholm

Preventing Dementia? Critical perspectives on a new paradigm of preparing for old age

2021

Literature review of physical frailty, psychological (cognitive) frailty, social frailty, and multidimensional frailty

2022

How to fix a broken heart: Cardiac disease and the ‘multiverse’ of stem cell research in Canada

2016

Annette Leibing

Clients and professionals elicit long-term care preferences by using ‘What matters to me’

2021

Karin van Leersum

Les technologies de l’espoir: La fabrique d’une histoire à accomplir

2010

Patiëntparticipatie bij de ontwikkeling en toepassing van e-health: Bereidheid en voorkeuren van mensen met diabetes mellitus type 2

2021

Karin van Leersum

Mobile health apps for control and self-management of Diabetes type 2: A qualitative study on users’ acceptability and acceptance

2023

Karin van Leersum

Ageism and (successful) digital engagement: a proposed theoretical model

2024

Assistive technology and telecare to maintain independent living at home for people with dementia: the ATTILA RCT.

2021

New challenges for the elderly. A note on socialization to ICT’s as an opportunity in the time of the COVID-19.

2020

Lessons from lockdown: What next for online carer support?

2021

Jenseits der Wehrpflicht. Stochern im normativen Nebel eines “Gesellschaftsdienstes”

2026

Placing assistive technology and telecare in everyday practices of people with dementia and their caregivers: findings from an embedded ethnography of a national dementia trial

2021

Matthew Lariviere

How social media maintained sociality in the pandemic

2021

Socialità e benessere nell’universo dei bambini. Frammenti di vita quotidiana al tempo del Covid19

2022

COVID-19 and everyday ICT use: The discursive construction of old age in German media

2022

“But at the age of 85? Forget it!”: Internalized ageism, a barrier to technology use

2021

Considering the role of material gerontology in reimagining technology design for ageing populations

2021

Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society. Evidence for User-centric Design

2020

Investigating the multifaceted role of warm experts in enhancing and hindering older adults’ digital skills in Finland

2024

Social, Technological and Health Innovation: Opportunities and Limitations for Social Policy, Health Policy, and Environmental Policy

2022

Andrzej Klimczuk

Economic Foundations for Creative Ageing Policy (the two-volume set)

2017

Andrzej Klimczuk

Individual and shared digital repertoires– older adults managing digital services

2023

Viivi Korpela, Laura Pajula

Older Adults Learning Digital Skills Together: Peer Tutors’ Perspectives on Non-Formal Digital Support

2023

Ethics by Other Means? Care Robot Trials as Ethics-in-Practice

2020

Dignity equals distance? Pursuing dignity in care for older adults

2022

Agnete Meldgaard Hansen

Sensor-floors: Changing Work and Values in Care for Frail Older Persons

2021

Agnete Meldgaard Hansen

Creating dementia-friendly community for social inclusion: a scoping review protocol

2020

Risk and Uncertainty in Telecare: The Case of the Finnish ’Elsi’

2023

Changes to care professions in the context of innovation in older adults care coordination

2023

Christophe Humbert

Digital Transformations in Care for Older People: Critical Perspectives

2021

Common sense put to work: The capitalisation of affects in the introduction of a Lean management model to healthcare professionals

2023

Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism: Lean in Action

2024

Helena Hirvonen

Towards responsible implementation of monitoring technologies in institutional care

2020

Alisa Grigorovich

Factors affecting the implementation, use, and adoption of Real-Time Location System Technology for persons living with cognitive disabilities in long-term care homes: Systematic review

2021

Alisa Grigorovich

The Biopolitics of Dementia: A Neurocritical Perspective

2024

James Rupert Fletcher

Cognitivism ageing: The Alzheimer conundrum as switched ontology & the potential for a new materialist dementia

2023

James Rupert Fletcher

Configuring the Older Non-User: Between Research, Policy and Practice of Digital Exclusion

2020

Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging with Technology

2018

Representing the “older end user”? Challenging the role of social scientists in the field of “active and assisted living

2019

From Mattering to Mattering More: ‘Goods’ and ‘Bads’ in Ageing and Innovation Policy Discourses

2021

Surveillance technology for people with dementia in nursing homes: a scoping review on the values of involved stakeholders

2025

Daniëlle van Gaans-Riteco

Caring through Sound and Silence: Technology and the Sound of Everyday Life in Homes for the Elderly

2020

Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of social robots for older adults and people with dementia: a scoping review

2021

Simone Anna Felding

Discrepancies between expected and actual implementation: the process evaluation of PERS integration in nursing homes

2020

Domesticating Social Alarm Systems in Nursing Homes: Qualitative Study of Differences in the Perspectives of Assistant Nurses

2023

Bag skærmen på en digital platform: Kunstfærdigt Integrationsarbejde og nye samarbejdskonstellationer

2021

Simone Anna Felding

Innovation in Toilet Hygiene – A Meta-Review of the Use of Automated Bidets to Reduce Caregiver Burden for Seniors

2026

Paul Joseph (“PJ”) Fameli

Double standards of generative AI chatbots: Unveiling (digital) ageism versus sexism through sociological interviews

2026

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol

Mobile communication and later life: From theories to empirical frescoes. Mobile Media & Communication

2026

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol

Exploring data ageism: What good data can (’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?

2024

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol

The impact of individualized interaction on the quality of life of elderly dependent on care as a result of dementia: a study with a pre-post design

2015

Marjolein E.M. den Ouden

Effects of self-management support programmes on activities of daily living of older adults: A systematic review.

2016

Marjolein E.M. den Ouden

Economic Foundations for Creative Ageing Policy

2017

Andrzej Klimczuk

Social, Technological and Health Innovation: Opportunities and Limitations for Social Policy, Health Policy, and Environmental Policy

2022

Andrzej Klimczuk

The Sharing Economy in Europe: Developments, Practices, and Contradictions

2022

Andrzej Klimczuk

Considering the role of material gerontology in reimagining technology design for ageing populations

2022

Juliane Jarke, Helen Manchester

Configuring the Older Adult: Instances of Shaping Age and Ageing through Digital Technology Design

2021

Co-creating Digital Public Services for an Ageing Society. Evidence for User-centric Design

2020

Losing Trust: Processes of Vaccine Hesitancy in Parents’ Narratives

2023

Risk and Uncertainty in Telecare: The Case of the Finnish ’Elsi’

2023

Ethics by Other Means? Care Robot Trials as Ethics-in-Practice

2020

The use of touchscreen tablets to support social connections and reduce responsive behaviors among people with dementia

2020

Creating dementia-friendly community for social inclusion: a scoping review protocol

2020

Virtual special issue – Using touchscreen tablets for virtual connection

2020

Dignity equals distance? Pursuing dignity in care for older adults. Ageing and Society

2022

Agnete Meldgaard Hansen

New Choreographies of Care: Understanding the Digital Transformation of Body Work in Care for Older People.

2022

Agnete Meldgaard Hansen

Sensor-floors: Changing Work and Values in Care for Frail Older Persons

2021

Agnete Meldgaard Hansen

Unsettling Intimacies: On world-making practices with the Other in Minoosh Zomorodinia’s mixed-media installation Knots and Ripples

2024

New Materialisms and Intersectionality: Making Middles Matter

2025

The International Handbook of Queer Death Studies

2025

Use of Digital Technologies for Older Adult’s Ties during Visitation Restrictions in Long-Term Care Facilities : A Scoping Review

2023

Christophe Humbert

Analyzing the use of videoconference by and for older adults in nursing homes: an interdisciplinary approach to learn from the pandemic

2023

Christophe Humbert

Changes to care professions in the context of innovation in older adults care coordination

Christophe Humbert

Common sense put to work: The capitalisation of affects in the introduction of a Lean management model to healthcare professionals

2023

Helena Hirvonen

Digital Transformations in Care for Older People: Critical Perspectives

2021

Helena Hirvonen

Gender and Welfare Service Work in Biocapitalism: Lean in Action

2024

Helena Hirvonen

Factors affecting the implementation, use, and adoption of Real-Time Location System Technology for persons living with cognitive disabilities in long-term care homes

2021

Caring through Sound and Silence: Technology and the Sound of Everyday Life in Homes for the Elderly

2020

From Mattering to Mattering More: ‘Goods’ and ‘Bads’ in Ageing and Innovation Policy Discourses

2021

Surveillance technology for people with dementia in nursing homes: a scoping review on the values of involved stakeholders,

2025

Daniëlle van Gaans-Riteco

Doing Age in a Digitized World—A Material Praxeology of Aging with Technology

2018

Vera Gallistl, Anna Wanka

Configuring the Older Non-User: Between Research, Policy and Practice of Digital Exclusion

2020

Representing the “older end user”? Challenging the role of social scientists in the field of “active and assisted living

2019

Vera Gallistl, Anna Wanka

A Critical History of Dementia Studies

2024

James Rupert Fletcher

Cognitivism ageing: The Alzheimer conundrum as switched ontology & the potential for a new materialist dementia

2023

James Rupert Fletcher

The Biopolitics of Dementia: A Neurocritical Perspective

2024

James Rupert Fletcher

Double standards of generative AI chatbots: Unveiling (digital) ageism versus sexism through sociological interviews

2026

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol

Exploring data ageism: What good data can (’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?

2024

Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol

Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of social robots for older adults and people with dementia: a scoping review

2021

Simone Anna Felding

Bag skærmen på en digital platform: Kunstfærdigt Integrationsarbejde og nye samarbejdskonstellationer

2021

Simone Anna Felding

Når omsorgen udliciteres: En analyse af den konfliktfyldte omsorgstrojka mellem mennesker med demens, pårørende og plejepersonale på et plejehjem i Danmark

2019

Simone Anna Felding

Domesticating Social Alarm Systems in Nursing Homes: Qualitative Study of Differences in the Perspectives of Assistant Nurses

2023

Discrepancies between expected and actual implementation: the process evaluation of PERS integration in nursing homes

2020

Technology scripts in care practice: A case study of assistant nurses’ use of a social alarm system in Swedish nursing homes

2022

Effects of self-management support programmes on activities of daily living of older adults: A systematic review

2016

Marjolein E.M. den Ouden

The impact of individualized interaction on the quality of life of elderly dependent on care as a result of dementia: a study with a pre-post design

2015

Marjolein E.M. den Ouden

“Hacking Age. Biohacking and Technologies of the Body

2022

Performing the care crisis through the datafication of elderly welfare care

2023

Editorial for the special issue the growing older of humans, nonhumans, and more-than-humans

2025

Explicit and implicit intergenerational digital literacy dynamics: How families contribute to overcome the digital divide of grandmothers

2022

Daniel Blanche-Tarragó

(Non-)Politicized ageism: Exploring the multiple identities of older activists

2022

Daniel Blanche-Tarragó

smartphones, social connectedness

Making sense of older adults’ everyday smartphone use for social connectedness

2025

Daniel Blanche-Tarragó

Why AI Governance Should be a Focal Issue for Gerontology

2025

Sharing patient technology preferences with care networks: stakeholders’ views of the “Let’s Talk Tech” decision aid for dementia care

2025

Control matters in elder care technology: Evidence and direction for designing it in

2022

Algorithmic harms and digital ageism in the use of surveillance technologies in nursing homes

2022

Clara Berridge, Alisa Grigorovich

Successful Aging in the Indian Socio-cultural Milieu

2023

Shilpa Bandyopadhyay

Beyond Family Care: Exploring Perspectives on Old Age Homes in Contemporary India

2025

Shilpa Bandyopadhyay

The experience of gerotranscendence in the Indian context

2025

Shilpa Bandyopadhyay

No future for care without new digital media? Making time(s) for mediated informal care practices in later life

2020

Roser Beneito-Montagut

What do we know about the relationship between Internet mediated interaction and social isolation and loneliness in later life?

2018

Roser Beneito-Montagut

Doing digital team ethnography: being there together and digital social data

2017

Roser Beneito-Montagut

Calling Family: Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives

2023

Telecare that Works: Lessons on Integrating Digital Technologies in Elder Care from Indian Transnational Families

2024

Ambiguous animals, ambivalent carers and arbitrary care collectives: Re-theorizing Resistance to Care Robots in a Dialysis Unit in Austria

2024