AgeTech for Elder Care Professionals: Elevating Care through Innovation
February 18 - September 30
Dates:
Available from Feb. 18 – Sept. 30, 2025
Format:
On Demand, approximately 3 hours.
Price:
Member Rate: $497*
Non-member Rate: $575*
Certificates & Credits:
Continuing Education credits are not available for this course. We will offer a Certificate of Attendance.
A yearly ASA membership is $275 for individuals and $100 for retired professionals & students. ASA also offers Organizational Membership. Learn more about membership here.
*This offering is non-refundable.
Description:
Aging professionals are invited to revolutionize their approach to care with our exclusive AgeTech for Elder Care Professionals seminar. Tailored for those dedicated to providing exceptional care for older adults, this extended course goes beyond the basics, covering the foundations of AgeTech, challenges of aging, and specific modules designed to empower attendees in sourcing, validating, and implementing cutting-edge tech solutions. This seminar can be completed in 3 hours. Key Topics Include:
- Foundations of AgeTech: Explore the nuanced foundations shaping the AgeTech landscape. Navigate the variety of AgeTech offerings and understand available solutions.
- Explore the challenges of aging through the lens of tech-enabled solutions: Delve into case studies showcasing innovative tech solutions that can transform how we age.
- Sourcing AgeTech Solutions: Learn effective strategies for identifying and selecting technologies that align with the unique needs of attendees’ clients/ organizations.
- Validating AgeTech Solutions: Develop skills to critically assess and validate AgeTech solutions. Gain insights into best practices for ensuring the reliability, safety and effectiveness of technologies in elder care settings.
- Implementing AgeTech Solutions: Create a roadmap for seamless integration of tech solutions in organizations. Learn practical implementation strategies, ensuring successful adoption (on staff and client levels) and improved caregiving outcomes.
- The business case for AgeTech—how do we get decision makers to fund innovations?
- The ethical case for AgeTech—how do we make our service better for our clients?
Course Schedule:
Module 1: Foundations of AgeTech
- What is AgeTech? Why do we need it? Why now?
- Defining key concepts
- Understanding the underlying trends that drive and impact the AgeTech ecosystem
Module 2: The Challenges of Aging
- Exploring the challenges of aging through tech-enabled solutions
- Delve into case studies showcasing innovative tech solutions transforming the aging experience.
Module 3: Sourcing, Validating, and Implementing Tech Solutions
- Sourcing AgeTech Solutions
- Learn effective strategies for identifying and selecting technologies that align with the unique needs of attendees’ clients/organizations.
- Validating AgeTech Solutions
- Develop skills to critically assess and validate AgeTech solutions.
- Gain insights into best practices for ensuring the reliability, safety and effectiveness of technologies in elder care settings.
Module 4: Implementing AgeTech Solutions
- Implementing AgeTech Solutions
- Create a roadmap for seamless integration of tech solutions into any organization.
- Learn practical implementation strategies, ensuring successful adoption (on staff and client levels) and improved caregiving outcomes.
- The Business Case for AgeTech
- The Ethical Case for AgeTech
On Aging Institute Faculty:
Keren Etkin is the author of The AgeTech Revolution—a book about the intersection of technology and aging, and founder of TheGerontechnologist.com—a media platform that covers the global AgeTech ecosystem and offers AgeTech education through the AgeTech Academy. She is also the founder-director of AgeLabIL at the Shenkar Institute for Design, Engineering and Art. Named one of the most influential people in aging by Next Avenue, Etkin works with startups, big tech companies, elder-care providers, public sector organizations and NGOs on the development and adoption of AgeTech solutions.
Previously, she was the first employee at Intuition Robotics, the startup behind ElliQ—the world’s first social robot designed with and for older adults, and co-founder and Vice President of Product at Sensi.Ai, a startup that developed the first and only AI solution for remote care monitoring.
She holds a master’s in Gerontology and a bachelor’s in Life Sciences from Ben-Gurion University.