[Sci-tech-public] February 26th STS Colloquium

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Please join us on Monday, February 26th, for an STS Colloquium:


A New Look at Old Age:
Science, Technology & Choosing How We Will Live Tomorrow

Joseph Coughlin, MIT AgeLab

4:00 p.m., MIT, E51-095

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.

  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.


A schedule of events for the week of February 
26th is attached.  Please remember to check the 
MIT on-line calendar (http://events.mit.edu/) for 
a complete listing of Institute events.


Debbie Meinbresse
STS Program, MIT
617-452-2390
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