Using behavioural insights to increase older adults' acceptance of camera-based active and assisted living technologies: An experimental medicine approach

Camera-based active and assisted living (AAL) technologies are a transformative solution to the challenges of population ageing but are hardly accepted by older adults. Few solutions have been offered to combat this issue of non-acceptance. The present research therefore employs behaviour change theory, couched in an experimental medicine approach, in an attempt to uncover strategies to increase older adults’ acceptance of said technology. Results shed light on a fruitful target for interventions aimed at increasing said acceptance: future self-continuity – that is, individuals’ sense of connectedness to their future self. Further insights are provided on novel means of targeting future self-continuity within acceptance-enhancing interventions.