Artificial Intelligence for Social Health in Later Life Care

My research program (2023-2026) will provide a globally-leading and foundational analysis of AI in ageing, capturing benefits and dangers for our most vulnerable. It will advance new understandings of AI-based care to address loneliness, social isolation, and exclusion in later life, delivering comprehensive knowledge to guide the development of healthier, inclusive, and sustainable later life care models. This program will be a landmark study of ageing and AI, being the first to map and compare how different AI technologies – from robots to chatbots – are being developed, implemented, and used for social care in aged-care homes (‘institutional ageing’) and for those living alone in the community (‘ageing in place’). It will address three overarching aims:

1. Assessment: Map how care home stakeholders perceive/use AI for social health and its care outcomes.

2. Development: Develop communities of practice to select and co-design the deployment of diverse AI-based technologies to address social health in different aged care environments. 

3. Evaluation: Identify inclusive, sustainable, and high-quality person-centred models of later-life care that integrate AI. Create best practices and policies for national and global benefit.