Technology: It's All About the People Served
How do you adopt a technology-friendly culture?

More Time for People, Not Penmanship
How time-saving documentation technologies can reduce workloads, improve care and help the bottom line.

Think Technologically, Act Globally
Here is a snapshot of a few technology initiatives underway around the world.

State of Technology in Aging Services
This CAST report presents a vision for technology-enabled care along with a review of available and under development safety, health and wellness and social connectedness technologies and their value to different stakeholders.

State of Technology in Aging Services According to Field Experts and Thought Leaders
This CAST report features the results of expert interviews with thought leaders about opportunities for aging-services technologies, barriers to their proliferation and suggestions for overcoming these barriers.

Designing Interactions for an Aging Population
When you read this Forrester Research's report, "Designing Interactions for an Aging Population," you'll discover the two main factors that drive technology adoption among older adults and what providers can do to make the most of technology's potential to help them.

Commission Report Analyzes Technology's Role in Aging Services
The National Commission for Quality of Long-term Care, along with BearingPoint, recently released a report focused on the opportunities and challenges with health information technology in your work. The report includes policy, business and infrastructure recommendations for accelerating technology's potential to transform aging.

Technology, Care and Community
Will active use of technology enable older people to age in the places they call home?

Easy Steps to Embrace New Technology
This handy tool, developed by CAST, is designed to provide you with ideas and suggestions for practical steps you can take today to prepare for tomorrow.

Technology: We Must Make Aging Everyone's Issue

Going High-Tech?
How privacy and security issues come into play.

Personal Health Records: Enablers for the Future?
Personal electronic health records may be a key element in a consumer-centric, smoothly functioning system of aging and health services.

WHCoA Imagines the Future of Aging
The White House Conference on Aging put innovative technologies front and center for consumers and policy-makers.

CAST Clearinghouse
The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) Clearinghouse is designed for and by technology developers, aging-services providers and researchers as a place to read about new products, research and pilot projects. Registered users can post and read information located throughout this dynamic database.

Organization Helps Seniors Use Technology
Generations on Line is an organization committed to promoting access older adults’ internet technology access and skills to enhance their quality of life.

Progress and Possibilities: State of Technology and Aging Services
This white paper describes how CAST envisions technology solutions that will make aging services more efficient, effective, wellness-oriented and consumer-friendly.

Baby Boomer Interest in Technology for the Delivery of Aging Services and Healthcare
Researchers from the Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) conducted a focus group project in March 2005 to determine the technology needs and attitudes of Boomers. The results of this project are now available in an electronic report.

The Gerontological Society of America Formal Interest Group on Technology & Aging
GSA-TAG is a program of GSA that promotes and supports research and applications of technology to improve the quality of life for older persons in a world-wide society.

Center for Aging Services Technologies
CAST is a new initiative bringing together researchers from universities, technology companies, facility administrators and government representatives. The center focuses on the application of technology and particularly the policy issues that impact how technology will be used successfully and priced effectively to provide aging services.

When Technology Dazzles, Are Ethics Left Behind?
How do we ensure that the ethical discussions we need to be having, to make sense of and master technology, take place?

Technology Through Seniors' Eyes: What's in it for Them?
New technologies are finding their way into aging services. Providers who are influencing this trend say that with high-tech tools they can deliver more client-centered care where seniors have great control over their lives.

Vision: Technology Must be Built Into Our Strategic Planning

Asking Good Questions in All the Right Places
What do technology experts know about the needs, desires and aspirations of aging adults? And how do they know it?

Learning from Abroad: Lessons and Questions on Personal Health Records for National Policy


Emerging Technologies Help AAHSA Members Create the Future of Our Field
New technologies displayed at the 2005 White House Conference on Aging helped providers and policymakers alike imagine the future of aging.

AAHSA/CAST Technology Issue Brief
This article discusses how technology's potential to help seniors maintain their quality of life and facilitate continued improvement in the quality of aging services.

A Day in the Life of a Medical Record
This report, published by the National Alliance for Health Information Technology, compares the security of electronic medical records to that of paper records.

The Use of Technologies to Help Meet the Healthcare and Quality of Life Needs of an Aging Population