Positive Ageing: Elements and factors for design

Copyright © 2015 ACM. A significant number of models and frameworks have introduced, and been used to support, positive approaches to ageing. They include Successful Ageing, Active Ageing and Ageing in Place, among others. The number of models can create confusion for technology designers who wish to incorporate such models into practice. This paper reviews different models of positive ageing in order to distil a comprehensive list of elements and factors that are important to, and supportive of, positive ageing. This list offers designers a useful source for considering the design of technology to support positive ageing. Finally, we discuss some gaps found in existing models and offer some insights into how designers could use this paper as a resource for design

Influencing Factors in Achieving Active Ageing

The Triple A project at QUT performed a national wide postal survey of older australian on a wide range of 'work', 'learning', 'social', 'spiritual', 'emotional', 'health and home', 'life events' and 'demographics' variables. With the use of predictive modelling techniques, this paper examines the impact of these interrelated variables on older people. The predictive modeling results successfully highlight interesting trends in the data and describe the significance of different factors in achieving active ageing