CAST Overview
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CAST sponsors and members financially support the work of this important organization and receive a variety of member benefits.
 
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The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) is leading the charge to expedite the development, evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies that will transform the aging experience.
CAST has four focus areas:
- driving a global vision of how technologies can improve the quality of life for seniors while reducing health care costs;
- accelerating technology research and development through pilot evaluations with seniors;
- advocating to remove barriers to the rapid commercialization of proven solutions; and
- promoting dialogue about standards to ensure interoperability and widespread access to aging-services technologies.
CAST is now an international coalition of more than 400 technology companies, aging-services organizations, businesses, research universities and government representatives working together under the auspices of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (www.aahsa.org). The members of AAHSA help millions of individuals and their families every day through mission-driven, not-for-profit organizations dedicated to providing the services that people need, when they need them, in the place they call home.
Employment Opportunities
If you are interested in exploring employment opportunities with CAST, please consult AAHSA's website for available positions.
A Message From Our Chairman
Thanks to the many miracles of modern healthcare, Americans are living longer than ever before. But as our senior population doubles over the next two decades, we face a daunting mission: to increase the quality of care for a record number of seniors, while somehow reducing the nation’s health-care bill before the system implodes. The current health care and long-term care systems cannot scale to meet the needs of this coming age wave.
If we are to deliver quality care to today’s and tomorrow’s seniors, we need a wellness revolution. That is, we need to apply American innovation to wellness technologies that enable prevention, early detection, increased compliance and new modes of remote caregiving and family support. But the revolution
must begin today. We only have a few years to prepare for the first wave of Baby Boomers who will reach age 65 in 2011. It is imperative that our nation be proactive in putting forth a plan to prepare us for this age wave that will
impact our health-care system, our economy and even our national security.
CAST was created to put the age wave challenge—and the opportunity for
new technologies to help with this challenge—on the national agenda. We
are working to catalyze crucial conversations and partnerships among
American businesses, government agencies, aging services providers and
university researchers.
- Eric Dishman
CAST Chairman
Intel Fellow, Digital Health Group
Director, Product Research and Innovation, Intel Corporation
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