Articles & Media about Living Connected
Living Connected's Director, Professor Helen Hasan, interviewed on the South Shoalhaven's Better Together podcast on June 13 2024.
iAccelerate Interview with Omar Khalifa
Living Connected was a resident of the University of Wollongong's business incubator, iAccelerate, for several years. Founder, Helen Hasan, talks here with iAccelerate's former CEO, Omar Khalifa, about the origins and purpose of Living Connected.
The Good Life Feature Story
The Good Life, IRT's home of advice and information for over 55s, visited Living Connected at a drop-in help session to learn about what we do and why we do it.
Living Connected is grateful to have many University of Wollongong students working with us. Here, UOW PR student, Claire Farquhar, writes a feature story on the work Living Connected does to not just combat the digital exclusion of elders, but give them the best chance of thriving in the information age
“The work that Living Connected is doing is fantastic. Technology isn’t a solution, but it’s an enabler for solution. . . the problem is that if you don’t have technological literacy, technology becomes a disabler rather than an enabler.”
Toby Dawson
Foundation Manager of IRT
In 2018, UOW Public Relations students, working with Living Connected, organized a packed event at the Innovation Campus attended by local politicians and covered by The Illawarra Mercury.
Gong social enterprise sprooks the benefits of Googling grandparents tackling the digital divide
Greg Ellis
Business Editor
Integral to the philosophy and culture of Living Connected is a desire to help as many people as possible, particularly those outside of major metropolitan areas. We work with local communities to make sure people know help is available if they need it. Here, Milton-Ulladulla ex Servos help spread the word with an article in their Local Express.
The Illawarra Mercury has been a great supporter of Living Connected from the beginning. In this article, journalist Greg Ellis shines the spotlight on Wollongong resident Allan Healy, attending our drop-in help centre at iAccelerate.
Natasha Egan from the Australian Ageing Agenda speaks with Living Connected Director, Helen Hasan, about the economic benefits of a digitally-literate senior population and the importance of getting commercial partners onboard to support the work we do.
Living Connected utilised its roots in academic research to produce a report on the challenges of an aging population in the digital age. The report highlights the burden on frontline staff when those who grew up before the digital age do not have the skills to navigate online systems, and the benefits to government, business and society at large when they do.
Our research shows seniors can learn to use digital technology to improve their wellbeing and quality of life in three major ways: maintaining their independence and staying in control of their lives, remaining connected to family, friends and community, and having something meaningful to do.
- Master’s research report by Laura Burling 2019
- Commissioned report by MBA Student Chris Hally-Burton
- Connected Living for Positive Ageing, Hasan H. Linger H (2017) Connected Living for Positive Ageing, in S. Gordon ed, Online Communities as Agents of Change and Social Movements, IGI Global
- An article in Educational Gerontology “Enhancing the Wellbeing of the Elderly: Social Use of Digital Technologies in Aged Care” by Helen Hasan and Henry Linger http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03601277.2016.1205425
- L. Burgess, H. Hasan & C. Alcock, “Information systems for the social well-being of senior Australians”, Building Sustainable Information Systems: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Information Systems Development. Springer New York, United States, (2013) 89-100. http://ro.uow.edu.au/ahsri/214/
- Alcock, C., Burgess, L. & Hasan, H. (2014). Connecting isolated senior citizens: illustrating the complexity of social information systems development. In H. Hasan (Eds.), Being Practical with Theory: A Window into Business Research (pp. 126-130). Wollongong, Australia: THEORI. http://ro.uow.edu.au/buspapers/424/
- The ASCOT Toolkit from the Personal Social Services Research Unit at Kent University UK.ASCOT is a measure which is designed to capture information about an individual’s social care-related quality of life (SCRQoL). Living Connected applies to the domains of Control, Occupation and Personal Connection,
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