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AAL Forum 2010 - Active Ageing, Smart Solutions, New Markets at Odense Congress Centre
September 15, 2010 at 1pm to September 17, 2010 at 2pm
Dear member of AAL ForumI hereby invite you on behalf of the AAL Association to take part in the AAL Forum Community "real life" Forum in Odense September 15-17, at this years AAL Forum 2010. We would appreciate to have an indication of how many of you are planning or already have decided to meet your digital AAL Friends for real. We have almost finished the programme,. It is an exciting and jam packed programme with content to suit…See More
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- International Society for Gerontechnology
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- Mission:
ISG encourages and promotes technological innovations in products and services that address older peoples' ambitions and needs on the basis of scientific knowledge about ageing processes including cultural and individual differences
Vision:
ISG works toward the realization of a society fully served by technology that is as accessible to ageing people as it is to people in younger generations
Values:
Innovative technology that serves an enabling role for ageing people by:
•Maintaining their independence and equality including considerations of residence, mobility, safety, security, communication, activities, and quality of life
•Supporting their well-being and health as defined by the WHO
•Realising their individual and collective/social ambitions and needs
•Keeping them embedded in their changing socio-cultural environment
•Enhancing their dignity
•Supporting their caregivers
Strategies:
•Advancing world-wide communication between scientific, technological, and social disciplines relevant to human ageing in a sustainable society, through a variety of means including international and regional conferences, an international peer-reviewed journal, and an Internet forum
•Establishing and improving university and professional education in gerontechnology by textbook and Internet-based educational material, curricula, courses, and master classes
•Supporting the introduction of gerontechnology into a wide range of disciplines and professions that impact on the well-being and quality of life of ageing people
•Advancing learning opportunities for ageing people to use new technology
•Applying insights from ageing processes to technological innovations
•Encouraging technological innovations that meet ambitions and needs of ageing people
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