Socio-gerontechnology: Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Softcover

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Alexander Peine is Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Over the last ten years, he has developed an interdisciplinary research agenda on the use and design of technologies for older people that combines ideas from STS and Age Studies.

Barbara L. Marshall is Professor of Sociology at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. She has written extensively on ageing, gender, sexuality and technology. Her current research explores ageing and digital technologies as these are reconfiguring embodiment and experiences of later life.

Wendy Martin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University London. Her research focuses on ageing, embodiment, and the digital and everyday life. Wendy is a member of the Executive Committee of British Society of Gerontology and Co-Editor of Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology.

Louis Neven is a lector (professor) and leads the Active Ageing research group at the Caring Society Centre of Expertise of Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda, the Netherlands. He has a long-standing interest in the design and use of technologies for older people.