DATE: 3 May 2022 (Tuesday)
TIME: 14:00 - 15:00 CEST
The use of digital technologies to foster healthy ageing has become increasingly important especially in the contexts of the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerating global digitalization. In particular, COVID-19 has exposed the need to address social isolation
and loneliness among older people as a growing social, economic, and public health issue requiring coordinated efforts in the context of the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing’s call for cross-sectoral collaboration to improve the lives of older people,
their families, and their communities.
This session will consider how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can be best leveraged to address social isolation & loneliness among older people in ways that endure through global
COVID-19 recovery efforts. The session will discuss the evidence that underpins digital interventions to address social isolation and loneliness and encourage a multi-stakeholder response bridging policy, research, and practice to ensure older people’s
needs for high-quality social connections are met.
Panellists
- Ms Masumi Ono (Moderator) - Chief, Social Inclusion and Participation Branch, UN DESA
- Ms Amal Abou Rafeh - Chief, Programme on Ageing Section, Social Inclusion and Participation Branch, Division for Inclusive Social Development, UN DESA
- Ms Roxana Widmer-Iliescu - Senior Coordinator on Digital Inclusion, ITU
- Dr Christopher Mikton - Technical Officer, Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing, WHO
- Dr Vivian Welch - Editor in Chief, Campbell Collaboration
- Mr Chad Brough - Vice President of Healthcare Transformation, Honor Technologies + Home Instead
- Dr Spencer Scoular - Co-Founder and Trustee, Loneliness New Zealand Charitable Trust