Alexander Peine, Anne Meissner and Anna Wanka presented findings from their chapter on digitalisation in the book ‘A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy’. Based on a critical view on 'technological solutions' promoted by policymakers to address problems of ageing, they critically explore technology and innovation policy as an important arena that makes ageing and shapes social policies.
Biographies
Alexander Peine is Professor of Culture, Innovation and Communication at the Open University of The Netherlands. His research explores the many intersections between ageing, the challenges it allegedly poses for care and health systems, and technological change, including the push towards more interactive and ‘smarter’ technologies. In his research, he has combined approaches from Science and Technology Studies (STS) with social and critical gerontology to develop the concept of the co-constitution of ageing and technology.
Anne Meissner is Professor of Nursing and Care Organization at the University of Hildesheim, Germany. She is an experienced scientist and practician in nursing and care with a demonstrated history of clinical experience, academic research, higher education, and in the health care industry.
Anna Wanka is Research Group Leader at the Department of Sociology and the Department of Educational Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Germany. She is a sociologist and critical gerontologist interested in the social construction of age. Her areas of expertise comprise the social practices of un/ doing age, life-course transitions, retirement and the re/production of social inequalities across the life-course, ageing and technologies, age-friendly cities and communities, ageing migrants and lifelong learning.
