Mobile HCI 2014 Workshop: Reimagining Commonly User Interfaces for the Eldlerly

Editor's Notes

• #4: Unique attributes Not a theory, but the perspective/framework that looking into historical precedence for explaining current behaviour offers. the life course perspective as one that “highlights the ways in which people’s location in the social system, the historical period in which they live, and their unique personal biographies shape the experience of old age.” Stoller and Gibson (2000)
• #5: In medicine: Preventive measures eg. Increasing Calcium intake for women with osteoporosis risk Predictive factor eg. In sociology: Choice points For example, Elder (1974) conducted a classic study of the effects of the Great Depression on subsequent development, using archives from what is now known as the National University Singapore ©2004 SAGE Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. SAGE knowledge Page 21 of 28 Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives: Theories of Aging Intergenerational Study, which followed children born in the 1920s and 1930s through their childhood and adulthood into late life. Elder showed that the Depression influenced the life course of individuals, but how it did so was modified by social class and family resources. Not everyone was equally affected by the Depression, and there was an interaction between economic deprivation and social class. Children from working-class families that were economically deprived generally had very difficult, chaotic lives. They were less likely to finish high school than their nondeprived peers and consequently had poorer work histories, less savings, troubled marital histories, and worse relationships with their children. Curiously, though, the middle-class children who were economically deprived did better than their nondeprived peers: They were more likely to achieve higher [p. 59 ↓ ] education and had better jobs and finances, more stable marriages, and better relations with their children. The stress of economic deprivation apparently motivated them to focus and achieve more in their lives. Thus, Elder (1998) argued for an interdependent life course: How individuals weather transitions, turning points, and hard times is a function of personal choices and those of others in the immediate social context, the availability or lack of resources, and larger historical events.
• #9: Singapore: Most rapidly ageing population in SEA, second most in Asia Contrast of France to Singapore – France – 100 years almost, USA 60 Years, Canada 40 years. Singapore about 15 years. As of 2012, about 21 per cent of Canadians were over the age of 60. By 2030, that proportion is projected to rise to about 28.5 per cent, and by 2050, 31 per cent — nearly a third of all Canadians — will be elderly. Canada went from 7-14% in about 40 years. Parental support ratio : number of people 15-64 : number of people >65 Another way to say it – WE are the elderly. What will your care environment look like?
• #10: Go to for health records?