Rhea Braunwalder, M.A.

Luma Life is developing a platform for voice-first AI companions to support people with early-stage dementia at home. As part of this Innovation cheque project, the team of the Institute for Ageing Research IAF conducts a literature search, which will be translated into an interaction model together with Luma Life, aiming to combine dementia care… ...

We examine how older adults can be connected through shared interests and moderated groups. The approach is co created with them and activation specialists. CommunityBot is not meant to replace but to enable social contacts, digital participation, and community in care homes.

In the framework of the Japanese concept and project Ibasho (founder: Dr. Emi Kiyota), integrative, local caring communities are developed, launched, and maintained together with and by older adults.

"Alte Sennerei" Tenna is an innovative, civic and social housing project in the Safiental (GR).

Against the background of the classification of persons aged 65 and over as a risk group in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Institute for Research on Ageing investigated how persons in this age group experienced the initial months of the pandemic and what their subjective experiences of ageism were during this period. ...

Robots are increasingly being used to assist older people.

Against the background of a significant increase in internet use by older people (65+), also on mobile devices, the project addresses the question of what effects the use of WhatsApp has on the subjectively experienced quality and the shaping of social relationships of users aged 65+.

A needs assessment is to be carried out to find out how community residents aged 65+ would like to live and reside and what needs arise in this context.