AAHSA's Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) is leading the charge to effect policy changes that will remove the impediments to the implementation of technology solutions to help facilitate independence and transform aging.
The centerpiece of the effort is the advancement of S. 908, which would create a nonpartisan congressionally mandated consortium to evaluate the potential of technologies to help the U.S. meet the needs of our aging population. When passed, the consortium will become the first public-private partnership around technology and aging that goes beyond medical records to explore the potential of new technology to assist older adults and their caregivers in such areas as promoting independence, facilitating early disease detection, promoting greater support to caregivers and minimizing medication error.
Please write your senators and urge them to support S. 908. Contact Congress using an e-mail letter to send directly to your own legislators.