Growing Older Disgracefully - How engaging with technology can help improve health in later life (16+)
Thursday 16th October 2025
Part of the Stirling Science Festival 2025!
Overview
Growing Older Disgracefully: How engaging with technology can help improve health and well-being in later life.
An engaging talk on how using digital technology alongside engaging with people (not instead of) can help provide opportunities for physical and social activity for older people and have positive effects on health and well-being.
This talk will present overall findings from a series of recent studies in care homes and community groups by the University of Stirling and encourage questions and engagement from the audience to discuss how physical activity is essential for health and how cutting-edge technology can be used as a tool to support this.
- Age 16+
- 7pm – 8.30pm
- Free and at Tolbooth.


