The overarching goal of the Penn Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratory for Healthy Aging (PennAITech) is to identify, develop, evaluate, commercialize, and disseminate innovative technology for monitoring aging adults and those with Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease related dementias (AD/ADRD) in their home environment and artificial intelligence (AI) methods and software for analyzing data generated by those technologies.

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The Collaboratory is motivated by the need for a comprehensive pipeline from technology-based monitoring of aging adults in the home, collection and processing monitoring data, integration of those data with clinical data from electronic health records, analysis with cutting edge AI methods and software, and deployment of validated AI models at point of care for decision support.

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A central focus of the PennAITech Collaboratory is to advance this vision through the solicitation, review, and funding of pilot grants focused on technology and AI development to advance the science of care management and aging in place for vulnerable older adults or those with AD/ADRD receiving skilled home- and community-based services. We emphasize the need for these projects to be inclusive of underserved and rural populations.