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<font size=4><b>Please join us on Monday, February 26th, for an STS
Colloquium:<br><br>
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<div align="center"><font size=5 color="#0000FF">A New Look at Old Age:
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Science, Technology & Choosing How We Will Live Tomorrow<br><br>
</font><font size=4>Joseph Coughlin, MIT AgeLab<br><br>
</font>4:00 p.m., MIT, E51-095<br>
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</b>The most profound social force in developed and developing economies
is aging. Today, science and technology is doing more than enabling
longer life, it is reshaping how we live in old age. Older people are
becoming the lead adopters of a new technology-enabled lifestyle. While
technological innovation offers to improve our quality of life, it is
also challenging our definition of personal responsibility and reshaping
the social contract between society and an aging population. <br><br>
Joseph Coughlin, Ph.D. is founding Director of the MIT AgeLab – a
multidisciplinary partnership between MIT, industry and the aging
community to engineer innovative approaches and technologies to improve
the quality of life of older adults and those that care for them. Dr.
Coughlin’s own research seeks to develop new business and policy
strategies that respond to the demands of today’s and tomorrow’s older
adults and caregivers. He has published in a variety of business,
technology and policy journals. He recently co-authored a book with Roger
W. Cobb on transportation safety and the mobility needs of an aging
society with Johns Hopkins University Press. He is currently editing a
second volume with Michael E. Kafrissen on measuring quality of life in
older populations and authoring a third book where he shows how business
and government will leverage the convergence of technology and evolving
boomer lifestyles to reshape how all of us will live, work and play
tomorrow. Dr. Coughlin teaches strategic management and public policy in
the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. Dr. Coughlin is a graduate of
the State University of New York, Brown University and Boston University.
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A schedule of events for the week of February 26th is attached.
Please remember to check the MIT on-line calendar
(<a href="http://events.mit.edu/" eudora="autourl">
http://events.mit.edu/</a>) for a complete listing of Institute
events.<br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
617-452-2390<br>
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