Maui AgeWave

Aloha,

John and I have spent many months laying the groundwork for growing Maui AgeWave and a Maui Connected Care System.

We're moving forward with a conceptual framework that is largely informed by the works of Joseph Coughlin and Christina Thielst.

Joe's paper , aptly titled CREATING A NEW HIERARCHY OF TECHNOLOGY FOR AGING   , calls upon the concept of  Abraham Maslow's "needs hierarchy" to  lay out a humanistic framework prescribing how high tech ought to offer an ideal way to live, not just age.

As a graduate student at Harvard, I read Maslow's work and never fully understood the meaning of his higher needs of Connectivity, Contribution and Legacy. Now that I've reached the "silver-surfer" stage of life, I can related more to Maslow's concepts and how they were expressed in the last years of my own parents and older friends.

Christina edited the definitive guidebook for establising a RHIO i.e. an interoperable exchange of health information.

Our goal now is to marry Joe's new humanistic hierarchy of technology for aging with the technical and multistakeholders requirements of an RHIO for our Maui health information exchange. 

One of our priorities is to plan and hold a conference in the near future to bring stakeholders from across Hawaii as well as technology companies and visionaries to exchange ideas and form the strategic partnerships that Maui AgeWave will need in the future to design and implement a model connected care system on Maui which can be replicated elsewhere. 

The connected care system we've in mind aims to improve:  quality of life of people aging in place, quality of care by healthcare providers and reduced costs of both. 

Please contact us if you'd be interested in participating in this conference as a sponsor, presenter, technology exhibitor or attendee..

Take care,

Peter