Defining the Boundaries of AgeTech: Can Code Care?

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AgeTech is moving fast: from risk scoring and monitoring to companions and care platforms. But alongside capability comes a deeper question: what should AgeTech leave to the humans?

This panel brings together leaders across caregiving, aging systems, and digital health to explore the boundaries, trade-offs, and design responsibilities shaping AgeTech today.

This conversation centers on four tensions shaping AgeTech design and adoption:

  • Human experience and care: How can technology strengthen care, connection, and autonomy?

  • Outcomes and trade-offs: What should AgeTech optimize for, and how do we weigh competing goals

  • Trust and accountability: What builds trust in AI-enabled AgeTech

  • Real-world adoption and impact: What does it take for AgeTech to work in everyday rhythm of homes, communities, care work, and policy?

By the end, viewers gain a practical way to evaluate AgeTech; whether you build it, buy it, fund it, deploy it, or use it.

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What the room said:

During the session, participants were asked to share what AgeTech should protect.
Across roles and geographies, the dominant themes were connection, care, and human emerged as the major themes! This reinforces that AgeTech is fundamentally about human values, not just capability.

Comments from the Audience

  • "Good care is inherently inefficient… we should automate the admin so humans have the luxury of being slow with each other again."

    —Sudhir Gautam

  • "Does it strengthen human connection vs. keep people on the platform?"

    —Mark Francis

  • "Meaningful engagement starts with co-defining the problem before co-designing solutions."

    —Christa Haanstra

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