Over 60 - (r)evolution of technology use among Bulgarian participants in project SAAM

  • Nadejda Nikolaeva Miteva BILSP
  • Zlatka Gospodinova Balkan Institute for Labour and Social Policy
  • Vera Veleva Balkan Institute for Labour and Social Policy
  • Yordan Dimitrov Balkan Institute for Labour and Social Policy
  • Kaloyan Haralampiev Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Keywords: active ageing, seniors, coaching, smart technologies, SAAM

Abstract

Project SAAM (Supporting Active Ageing through Multimodal coaching) aimed at providing new methods supporting Europe’s ageing population to remain active and live independently at home for as long as possible. This article presents the case study of designing the SAAM system for and and testing it together with seniors, sharing the experience from Bulgaria. The article particularly focuses on project results in the area of technology uptake among seniors. SAAM proved to be a system with significant potential to meet seniors’ active ageing needs, because of its high level of personalisation. On the other hand, most Bulgarian seniors participating in the project managed to adapt to having the SAAM system present in their lives regardless of their previous experience with technologies or lack thereof. Thus, SAAM contributed to answering some of the open questions in the field of active ageing. Still, observing the interplay between the complex and multi-domain system’s functioning and seniors’ experience with it inevitably raised new questions to be answered in the future;

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Published
2022-05-23
How to Cite
Miteva, N., Gospodinova, Z., Veleva, V., Dimitrov, Y., & Haralampiev, K. (2022). Over 60 - (r)evolution of technology use among Bulgarian participants in project SAAM. Vanguard Scientific Instruments in Management, 17. Retrieved from https://vsim-journal.info/index.php?journal=vsim&page=article&op=view&path[]=273