INITIATIVE ON AGING: Assistive Technology
Introduction
The Arizona Technology Access Program (AzTAP) partnered with the Arizona Department of Economic Security - Aging and Adult Administration on a grant awarded by the NAHB Research Center’s National Center for Senior’s Housing Research. The goal of this collaboration was to stimulate greater public awareness of innovative approaches for addressing common needs of older adults who want to age in place through the use of assistive technologies.
Major project activities included publication/dissemination of a series of 12 aging-related assistive technology articles, a booklet and brochure of assistive Technology and Alzheimer's Disease, four statewide trainings to aging services providers and an assistive technology interdisciplinary design project by engineering students on the campus of Northern Arizona University.
Table of Contents
- Assistive Technology and Aging: Tools for Independence
- Independence Can Be Cheap and Easy With Low Tech Assistive Technology
- Free Telephones. Honest!
- Assistive Technology for Hearing Loss
- Assistive Technology and Computer use
- Assistive Technology: The Key to Computer Use When Vision is Impaired
- “Senior Moments” Don’t Have to Be Moments of Lost Memory: Assistive Technology Can Help
- $how Me The Money: Funding For Assistive Technology
- Assistive Technology for Low Vision: I See What You Mean!
- Aging and the Future of Assistive Technology
- What Can I Say? Assistive Technology for Speech Impairments
- Home Modification: Creating A Home That Meets Your Needs
