Recent AgeLab
media coverage can be accessed by
clicking the links below.
AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin
featured in AARP Bulletin article:
Silver
Auto: How the Car Industry Is Rethinking
Its Appeal to Older Drivers
June 30, 2008
AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin
addresses World
Congress on Chronic Care and Prevention
as plenary speaker
June 2, 2008
AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin
featured in Boston Globe article
highlighting AgeLab vehicle technology
MIT
creating a car that helps drivers
make decisions
June 2, 2008
Agelab researcher Bryan Reimer
quoted in the Boston Globe
Some
drivers fear cellphone-tunnel mix
May 25, 2008
Agelab researcher Michelle Pratt
quoted in the Vancouver Sun
Aging
boomers most lucrative market for
just about everything
March 31, 2008
Agelab Director Joseph Coughlin
honored as a 2008
Home Healthcare Hero at the
Visiting Nurse Association of Boston's
Annual Gala
March 29, 2008
Agelab research on Couple's Retirement
Planning featured in InvestmentNews
Teamwork
critical to developing retirement
plans (pdf)
February 25, 2008
Agelab research on Couple's Retirement Planning featured in MarketWatch
Keeping the glass filled: 'Divide and conquer' couples best at retirement planning (pdf)
February 20, 2008
AgeLab Researcher Dr. Bryan Reimer
quoted in the Boston Globe
The
Boston Globe or
PDF
February 19, 2008
AgeLab Director Dr. Joseph Coughlin named by The Wall Street
Journal as one of 12 People Who Are Changing
Your Retirement (pdf 1MB).
February 16, 2008
Agelab research on Couple's Retirement
Planning featured in CNN
Money
GETTING PERSONAL: A Little Separation Is Good For Finances
February 14, 2008
Cox News Service profiles the AgeLab.
To read the story MIT AgeLab Preparing for an Older Tomorrow Click here.
February 10, 2008
AgeLab Director Joe Coughlin quoted
in the Chicago Tribune
Fictional coaches help people get real with exercise
January 27, 2008
AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin on NPR's Talk of the Nation
January 16, 2008
Joe Coughlin keynoted
at South America's largest
business leaders event, HSM ExpoManagement
in San Paolo, Brazil. Joining other
keynote presenters such as Alan
Greenspan, Michael Porter, Michael
Eisner, and Ray Kurzweil, Dr. Coughlin
will present his research on the
new business of old age examining 5
the impact of longevity on innovation.
AgeLab researcher Dr. Lisa D'Ambrosio
presented webinar with Maureen
Mohyde from The Hartford to American
Occupational Therapy Association
(AOTA) on November 7 2007. Their
presentation will be entittled "Alzheimer’s,
Dementia and Driving: The Transition
from Driver to Passenger."
On November 2nd Dr. Bryan Reimer presents at the National Advanced Driving Simulator at the University of Iowa. Dr. Reimer discussed his research in a talk entitled "Changing Demographics and the Impact on Future Vehicle Development." The National Advanced Driving Simulator is the world's most advanced ground vehicle simulator used in safety, health and other factors that affect driving performance.
Research scientist Lisa D'Ambrosio,
Ph.D.of the MIT AgeLab, presented
at the 2007 AARP National Event
and Expo in Boston as part of the
University Session with Director
of the Corporate Group at The Hartford
Maureen Mohyde and Interim Director
Frank Carroll of Driver Safety Program
& Mobility Options, Livable
Communities, AARP Outreach and Service.
The session, titled "We Need to
Talk… Family Conversations with
Older Drivers," discussed the significance
of driving for older adults and
reviewed MIT AgeLab and Hartford
research on older drivers. The presentation
was based on the publication
"We Need to Talk… Family Conversations
with Older Drivers". Also, the
session discussed the synthesis
of AARP Outreach and Service, The
Hartford and the MIT AgeLab's work
in developing an award winning video/DVD
and workshop program being introduced
by AARP nationwide.
Septemember 2007
AgeLab researcher Dr. Bryan Reimer
presented his paper "Young
Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder (ADHD): The impact of secondary
tasks on driving performance"
at the Driving Simulation North
America Conference in Iowa City.
Dr. Reimer’s research concluded
certain types and complexity of
secondary tasks, when combined,
in specific driving situations can
exploit deficiencies in an ADHD
driver's performance. In addition,
results of the study indicated context
plays an important roll in the allocation
of an ADHD driver’s attention
and ADHD drivers appear to be drawn
to high-demanding situations at
the expense of safety. As part of
a larger MIT AgeLab and New England
University Transportation Center
initiative investigating the impact
of medical disorders on driver performance,
this research was conducted in collaboration
with the clinical research staff
in the Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Research Unit at Massachusetts General
Hospital Department.
September 19, 2007
The Metro West Daily News
featured AgeLab scientist Dr. Bryan
Reimer in its article Roads
& Rails: Taking transportation above
the road and beyond
August 19, 2007
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch featured Dr. Joe Coughlin in its business section article
Metaphase Focuses on Product Design, Patient Dignity
August 12, 2007
Dr. Joe Coughlin and AgeLab research
featured in The Boston Globe Can You Spot the Personal Communication Assistant?
PDF
July 31, 2007
AgeLab and Healthways Host
Health Literacy in a Consumer-Directed
World Forum
The AgeLab hosted a Health Literacy
& Navigating a Consumer-Directed
World forum. The forum sponsored
by Healthways, the largest disease
management firm in the United States,
included representatives from government,
information technology firms, insurers,
pharmaceutical and consumer products
companies, and non-governmental
organizations such as the Gingrich
Group's Center for Health Transformation
and the National Minority Quality
Forum. AgeLab Director Joe Coughlin
helped frame the business, policy
and research agenda. The group discussed
how understanding new roles, responsibilities
and technologies can ensure an informed
and efficacious health care patient
and caregiver in a consumer-driven
marketplace. The forum is the first
of several events AgeLab's new Navigation
Studio or NavStudio research initiative.
NavStudio research aims to uncover
how consumers navigate complex systems,
e.g., health, retirement and transportation
across the lifespan. More information
on the Health Literacy & Navigating
a Consumer-Directed World forum
or the Nav Studio may be obtained
by contacting AgeLab's Jennifer
Simckowitz.
July 26, 2007
AgeLab Research on Health
and Aging-in-Place featured in The
Saturday Evening Post magazine
Doctor in the House features AgeLab Director Joe Coughlin
July/August 2007
MIT Researcher presents
at CREATE 2007: Creative Inventions,
Innovations and Everyday Designs
in HCI in London
Anna Pohlmeyer discussed her paper
"A Dynamic Content Visualization
Framework to Optimize Driver Information
Processing." It proposes an innovative
design that integrates telematics,
digital customization and preferences
to minimize driver distractions.
A
dynamic content visualization framework
to optimize driver information processing
(PDF) June 14, 2007
Researchers urge learning to
drive safely with cellphone
The
Boston Globe or
PDF
May 27, 2007
Senior Momentum
Business
Week Article
May 1, 2007
Living in Style in Later Life
Saving for the Heirs? As if!
The times during which the wealthy
aged were living a frugal life are
apparently over. They prefer to
spend their money for sunset years
at deluxe residences. PDF
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
March 26, 2007
Coughlin to keynote
Joint Conference of the American Society on Aging and the National Council on Aging
March 8, 2007
AgeLab hosted a group of
Liberty Mutual and Volpe National
Transportation Systems employees,
along with professors from China's
Tsinghua University The
tour and discussion focused on AgeLab's
work surrounding driver safety.
January 17th, 2007
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