Open AccessDesign for Aging: Perspectives on Technology, Older Adults, and Educating Engineers
Author(s) -
Caitrin Lynch
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
anthropology and aging
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.127
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2374-2267
DOI - 10.5195/aa.2015.108
Subject(s) - humanity , engineering ethics , gerontology , sociology , engineering , psychology , medicine , political science , law
Does the development of new technologies invariably contribute positively to the daily lives of older adults in the contemporary United States and elsewhere? Eleven years into teaching anthropology to engineers, and five years into co-teaching a course on design for aging called “Engineering for Humanity,” my answer is: Not always, but we can make it so