Ittay Mannheim is a PhD student in the EuroAgeism Innovative Training Network at Fontys School of Allied Health Professions, and Tilburg university, in the Netherlands. Ittay received his MA in Social and Organizational Psychology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his BA in Psychology and Management from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He has previously worked at the Division for Research on Aging at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, where his worked focused on loneliness, early detection of dementia, autonomy, legal guardianship and the use of technology.
The primary goal of this research project is to consider the role of ageism as a possible barrier to adoption and use of DT. Consequently, some of the main interests of this research project are how stereotypes and ageism influence the design process of DT, what are the attitudes of caregivers and healthcare professionals who use DT with older adults, and how internalization of social stereotypes of age and technology influence how older adults use DT.
