Technology

The following selected 'websites' and 'publications' can be used to support 'digital inclusion' and development and use of new technologies:

Websites

• Taking Part Survey statistical releases including data by age group on digital participation in culture and also internet use and social networking published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
• Digital inclusion published by the Centre for Ageing Better
• One Digital published by Age UK
• The digital divide published by the Good Things Foundation
• UK Research and Innovation - Healthy Ageing published by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
• Technology for Healthy Ageing & Wellbeing (THAW) published by the Centre for Assistive Technology and Connected Healthcare, University of Sheffied
• Technology to support personalised health and care published by NHS England (may need to right-click, copy & paste link in an alternative browser)
• AbilityNet - a national charity that "exists to change the lives of disabled people by helping them to use digital technology at work, at home or in education".

Publications

• COVID-19 and the digital divide: Supporting digital inclusion and skills during the pandemic and beyond (2021) - a report published by the Centre for Ageing Better. 
• Beyond Digital: Planning for a Hybrid World (2021) - a report published by The Select Committee on COVID-19 
• Digital Nation 2020 - infographic providing statistics on digital inclusion and exclusion published by the Good Things Foundation
• Designing digital skills interventions for older people (2019) published by Good Things Foundation
• Social Care Digital Innovation Programme 2019-2021 (2019) published by the Local Government Association
• NHS Long Term Plan - Chapter5: Digitally-enabled care will go mainstream across the NHS (2019) published by NHS England (may need to right-click, copy & paste link in an alternative browser
• Digital inclusion for health and social care (2019) a guide for service providers, commisioners and designers published by NHS Digital
• Policy paper - The Grand Challenges - Ageing Society (2018) published by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
• The NHS at 70: What will new technology mean for the NHS and its patients? (2018) published by the Health Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust
• Life-changing technology for the elderly (2018) published by Age UK
• Harnessing technology to meet increasing care needs (2017) published by the Council for Science & Technology
• Assistive technology for disabled and older people: research and development work (2013) published by the Department of Health and Social Care