Grand Challenges of Our Aging Society Workshop Summary (2010) / Chapter Skim
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7 Community Responses
7 Community Responses
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Older people are not major users of public transit. In 2001, public transit accounted for less than 1 percent of all the trips taken by drivers over age 65 and about 10 percent of trips by nondrivers over age 65.
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Women stop driving earlier and for less specific reasons than men; by contrast, the precipitating event for a man to give up driving is the third stroke or heart attack. Women at all ages are safer drivers and have lower crash rates than men, but they are more likely to be killed in comparable crashes.
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• hat pedestrian facilities would be genuinely helpful to older W people? Research on vehicle and roadway characteristics includes attention to every aspect of driving, including drivers, vehicles, roadways, signage, and the like.
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With these questions in mind, increased longevity may be viewed as a systems success. The increase in longevity has been achieved due to multiple public systems, including clean water delivery, sanitation, deliv ery of health care services, and medical technology.
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Specially equipped stuffed animals can monitor blood pressure and provide reminders to take medications. Smart grocery carts take personal diet and health data and provide information relevant to deciding on purchases by scanning products and evaluating them in light of an individual's health history.
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How will the social contract around longevity be rewritten? With technologies that can monitor behavior, such as food purchases or driving practices or basic mobility, Coughlin cautioned, "Be careful what you ask for, we may actually deliver it." Coughlin closed with four questions for research and public policy regarding aging and technological innovation.
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In subsequent discussion, Coughlin responded to a geriatrician who expressed reservations about the flood of extraneous data provided by the new monitoring technologies. As a provider, this speaker remarked, these technologies are "in a sense, my worst nightmare." Coughlin concurred that the situation can become "data, data everywhere and not a drop of knowledge," noting that technology often solves one problem and creates two more.
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