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This open access book presents a step-by-step journey to address the problem of ineffective service delivery by local government that led to the leveraging of new technology to benefit older individuals. Based in South Africa, this exploration is in one sense peculiar to its setting--developing country with huge inequalities--but the story goes beyond the immediate geographical setting of (South) Africa and transcends the temporal aspect of ICT technology. It reflects on older persons' participation, negotiation, and transition in the development of a technology artefact that offers the potential to access services and activities, and to participate in an inclusive society for all ages. This theme has wider resonance, and demonstrates a phenomenon witnessed in different ways and stages across the globe: cohorts of older persons negotiating waves of updated and new technologies. This edited volume details a workable, transdisciplinary and relational approach to 21st-century ICT innovation that helps create a technology artefact tailored for purpose. Worldwide, it is anticipated that care needs of older populations will outstrip available resources. Sub-Saharan Africa lacks relevant long-term care systems for older persons, and technology could play a crucial role in supporting families, communities and government in vital care management. This volume addresses, in three parts, the under-explored topic of age-inclusive ICT development and use in resource-poor countries. Part 1, Context and Project Background, sets out ICT service delivery to older persons globally and within South Africa, drawing on guiding legislative frameworks. It discusses the we-DELIVER project as an example of developing and applying age-inclusive technology in developing countries. Part 2, Principles, Process and Applications, proposes situationally and relationally informed ethical conduct in applying community-based research; the development of a questionnaire and application to present first-time baseline findings of older South Africans' cell phone use, highlighting its intergenerational facilitation. The development of the Yabelana alluding to "sharing" ecosystem consisting of a website, an app, and an unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) code turned out to be a first of its kind: a digital self-sustaining technology artefact that serves as an eDirectory to provide information about local services or events for but not exclusively older individuals. Part 3, Critical Reflections and the Way Forward, considers the inclusion of marginalized older individuals and the future of ICT and cell phone technology to inform research, practice, and policy. This topical edited volume is of interest to social science researchers and students as well as policy makers and practitioners dealing with the life course, ageing and age care, intergenerational issues, technology, social policy, and social work.

Technology and older people. --- Older people and technology --- Technology and the aged --- Older people

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Dépression et démence ne seraient-elles qu'une seule maladie, comme le double visage de Janus, qu'Ovide identifiait au Chaos? Longtemps présentées comme un diagnostic différentiel à envisager lors des troubles mnésiques débutants, ces deux affections intriquées demeurent une énigme pour le corps médical confronté au déclin de la personne âgée. Égarant le diagnostic, leur étiopathogénie demeure incertaine à plus d'un égard. Sont-elles des soeurs siamoises issues d’une pathologie organique unique préexistante ou la conséquence l’une de l’autre: la détresse du dément qui prend conscience de son invalidité ou la dépression à ce point déstructurante qu’elle débouche sur la folie? Les arguments pour chacune de ces hypothèses seront avancés avec toutes les précautions d’usage, sans prétendre imposer au lecteur une réponse univoque à la fin du parcours.

Psychiatry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Psychiatric Disorders, Individual --- Depressive Disorder --- Dementia --- Aged --- diagnostic différentiel --- démence --- troubles cognitifs --- santé --- gériatrie --- vieillesse --- dépression

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Smartphones are literally at the tip of our nose, and it's hard to ask what a smartphone is. But do we really understand smartphones? To dig deeper into understanding, 11 anthropologists lived in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America for 16 months, respectively, and investigated the spread of smartphones among the elderly. The study reveals that smartphones are a technology used by all generations, not just young people."Global smartphones" present a unique perspective from their global comparative research. Smartphones are always close at hand and are not only devices that meet "Perpetual Opportunism", but are now even the place of our lives. This book shows that smartphones are more than just "app devices" and explores the differences between what people say about smartphones and how they actually use them. The Martphone is an unprecedentedly flexible device to the extent that we users can transform it. This freedom rapidly reflects the individual values ​​of the user on the smartphone. In order to understand this value, it is necessary to consider the ethnic and cultural differences in each region. For example, in addition to the diversity of aging trajectories followed by regions such as Al-Kudus (Jerusalem), Brazil, and Italy, visual communication between China and Japan, mobile money in Cameroon and Uganda, health in Chile and Ireland. Only by considering these differences, such as how to access information, can we understand what a smartphone is and the transformation of life that it brings.

Computers and older people. --- Smartphones --- Social aspects. --- Smart cell phones --- Smart phones --- Cell phones --- Pocket computers --- Computers and the aged --- Older people and computers --- Older people

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Computers and older people. --- Technology and older people. --- Older people and technology --- Technology and the aged --- Older people --- Computers and the aged --- Older people and computers --- o ethnography --- smartphones --- ageing --- new technology --- anthropology --- media studies --- older people --- cultural studies --- popular culture --- communication studies --- sociology

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This book examines the employer perspective on how to respond to the needs and desires of older workers to delay or prolong the transition from full-time employment to complete retirement.

Older people --- Retirement --- Employmen --- Superannuation --- Termination of employment --- Aged --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Leisure --- Old age --- Age groups --- Persons --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Employment --- E-books --- Labour economics --- Labour / income economics