Aging in Data

Aging in Data is a research project that explores how an era of unprecedented digital data-gathering impacts and governs how we grow old in our communities.

How Informed are Those Who Consent?

Recent data acquisition methods have created a massive wave of quantitative epidemiological studies for identifying the biomarkers of either ‘neurodegenerative disease’ or ‘successful aging’…

Cross-National Longitudinal Study Data collection of the 4th Wave in Romania

ACT Cross-National Longitudinal Study is a 6 years project (2017-2021) launched by Aging + Communication + Technologies Lab…

Aging in Data

Aging in Data is a research project that explores how an era of unprecedented digital data-gathering impacts and governs how we grow old in our communities.

Featured Projects

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Featured Projects

RECAA Choir: A programme

Navigating turbulence: Community workers, older adults and policy makers on surviving the pandemic  

Older women’s everyday data practices: affective affordances

Featured Publications

Exploring data ageism: What good data can(’t) tell us about the digital practices of older people?

Digital Ageism

A Social-Media Study of the Older Adults Coping with the COVID-19 Stress by Information and Communication Technologies

News

12 September 2024

Socio-Gerontechnology Network – 2024 Annual Meeting

Over twenty AiD-affiliated researchers to present their work at this year's panels and workshops.

7 August 2024

Data Power Conference 2024

Online and in person in two locations: International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B), India and the University of Graz, Austria, with a keynote from AiD director Kim Sawchuk and collaborator Eric Craven as well as participation of more than 10 AiD researchers and students.

27 May 2024

Aging in Data seminar at Graz International Summer School Seggau 2024

Aging in Data will be holding an international, interdisciplinary and academically intergenerational two-week seminar taught by professor Kim Sawchuk.

Aging in Data

Aging in Data is a research project housed in the ACT Lab at Concordia University in Montreal that is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. It  brings together an interdisciplinary network of scholars from ten countries, community-based activists and organizations.