How can technology help older workers?

Open Collaborative Research


The IBM Open Collaborative Research (OCR) program encourages computer scientists to develop open-source code that will improve the quality of software applications for industry, government and community-based organizations.


Sara Czaja

Until recently, older people worked toward retirement. The trend today – from the U.S. to Australia – is for older people to keep working. Is the workplace ready for them?

Sara Czaja, an accessibility researcher at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, talks about an Open Collaborative Research project with IBM that addresses this question.

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Series producer: Barbara Finkelstein
Music: (c) "Walking the Dogg" by The Dejunair Project.

Last updated April 11, 2008