TechSAge Tips

Based on best practices for accessibility and findings from our own research, we designed a series of tip sheets to help support people aging with disabilities.

• Making an Accessible Word Document: This tip sheet provides recommendations for making an word document that is accessible for screen readers.
• Making Volunteering More Inclusive for People with Disabilities: We interviewed older adults with long-term sensory and mobility disabilities about the challenges they experience with volunteering. Based on these findings, this tip sheet provides solutions to make volunteering more inclusive.
• Self-Report Questions to Assess Hearing Loss among Older Adults: Based on our experience conducing research with late-deafened older adults, we provide recommendations for descriptive, self-report measures to assess hearing loss among older adults.
• Hearing loss self-advocacy and disclosure of communication needs and preferences: This tip sheet highlights key recommendations from late-deafened older adults to overcome communication challenges.
• Considerations for Improving Communication between Clinicians and Older Adults with Hearing Loss – From interviews with late-deafened older adults, we identified recommendations for clinicians to improve communication with older adults with hearing loss in healthcare settings.
• MS Tip Sheets – We interviewed older adults with Multiple sclerosis about the tools and technologies they use to overcome challenges in their daily lives. Based on resources our participants found helpful, we developed these tip sheets:
  • Making Cooking Easier for People with MS
  • Devices for Leisure Used by People with MS
  • Digital Resources for People with MS
  • Tools and Technologies for Wheelchair Users