Can Quantified Self Be a Facilitating Technology to Help Older Adults Stay Longer in Their Home?

Maeyer, Christel De

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-60672-9_4

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“…There are similar devices with suitable and relevant software/applications that increasingly populate older people's private homes (Cozza et al, 2017(Cozza et al, , 2019. Such tools are marketed to facilitate greater independence for older adults, offering peace of mind for family members and/or other informal caregivers (De Maeyer, 2017).…”

Section: Quantificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…“[I]n neoliberal states, the discourses that valorize self‐tracking as part of self‐management and control over bodily disorder are moving into broader public arenas and becoming part of government policy and corporate endeavours to maximize worker productivity and (in the U.S. context [but not only]) to reduce expenditure on health insurance coverage” (Lupton, 2013, p. 28). In other words, the QS movement promotes a self‐guided set of practices that accord with general neoliberal principles of self‐governance, self‐management, and self‐entrepreneurship (De Maeyer, 2017).…”

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Hacking age

2022

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This article is a critical interdisciplinary study of biohacking as a specific case of transhumanism and its goals of enhancement and age intervention. It focuses on the organising principles underlying the biohacking movement's relationship to ageing and technoscience. The argument traces how the historical and scientific body technologies of molecularisation, functional age, optimisation, and quantification made possible the biohacking vision of the ageing body as amenable to modification, enhancement and improvement beyond its natural limits. Conclusions consider the wider implications of biohacking by pointing out four important issues that frame our cultural ambivalence about ageing: the tension between biohacking's supposedly liberating enhancement technologies and their obeisance to a tyranny of self-disciplinary practices and the authority of bio-data; the social meaning of biohacking hierarchies of human value, based on modifiable fitness and enhanceable performance; the implications of the biohacking program for gendered ageism; and the ethical limits of biohacking, not only in terms of potential harms to a person but what it can mean to exceed the natural limits of life.

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Section: Quantificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%