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International Society for Gerontechnology

Designing technology and environment for independent living and social participation of older persons in good health, comfort and safety.

Mission
ISG encourages and promotes technological innovations in products and services that address older peoples' ambitions and needs on the basis of scientific knowledge about ageing processes including cultural and individual differences

Vision
ISG works toward the realization of a society fully served by technology that is as accessible to ageing people as it is to people in younger generations

Values
Innovative technology that serves an enabling role for ageing people by:

Maintaining their independence and equality including considerations of residence, mobility, safety, security, communication, activities, and quality of life
Supporting their well-being and health as defined by the WHO
Realising their individual and collective/social ambitions and needs
Keeping them embedded in their changing socio-cultural environment
Enhancing their dignity
Supporting their caregivers

Strategies

Advancing world-wide communication between scientific, technological, and social disciplines relevant to human ageing in a sustainable society, through a variety of means including international and regional conferences, an international peer-reviewed journal, and an Internet forum
Establishing and improving university and professional education in gerontechnology by textbook and Internet-based educational material, curricula, courses, and master classes
Supporting the introduction of gerontechnology into a wide range of disciplines and professions that impact on the well-being and quality of life of ageing people
Advancing learning opportunities for ageing people to use new technology
Applying insights from ageing processes to technological innovations
Encouraging technological innovations that meet ambitions and needs of ageing people