Bridging disaster risk reduction, community work, and gerontechnology: Potentials, ambivalences, challenges
C. Schmitt & B. Klein (Convenors)
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AbstractParticipants: P. Hollenbach (Germany), K. Paldán (Austria), C. Schmitt (Germany)
PURPOSE The Round Table brings together discussions on disaster risk reduction, community work, and gerontechnology. The participants work in diverse yet overlapping areas, with expertise in assistive and digital technologies in social and healthcare, social work as disaster relief and community work, rescue robotics, and global disaster risk reduction. Within a co-creative discussion format, the participants engage in the exchange and creation of future knowledge related to the role of communities, technologies, and robotics in disaster risk reduction with a special emphasis on the situation of elderly people. The goal is to facilitate a dialogue between previously separate discussions on social, community-based disaster relief on one hand, and gerontechnology and robotics on the other. This dialogue aims to develop practical approaches and new visions for community-centered disaster relief together with and for people in need, as well as to explore the possibilities of gerontechnology based on best practice examples and exchange of experiences.Keywords: Gerontechnology, disaster risk reduction, vulnerability, community work, social work and healthcare
C. Schmitt & B. Klein (Convenors) (2024). Bridging disaster risk reduction, community work, and gerontechnology: Potentials, ambivalences, challenges. Gerontechnology, 23(2), 1-1
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2024.23.s.1137.1.sp