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Innov Aging
Innov Aging
innovateage
Innovation in Aging
2399-5300 Oxford University Press US 

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.3176
igaa057.3176
Abstracts
Session 7800 (Symposium)
AcademicSubjects/SOC02600
Workplace Adaptive Technologies for Working Adults With Cognitive and Physical Disabilities
Heyn Patricia  
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States
2020 
16 12 2020 
16 12 2020 
4 Suppl 1 Program Abstracts from The GSA 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting “Turning 75: Why Age Matters”861 861
© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America.2020This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Abstract
Individuals with disabilities usually have difficulty in finding and maintaining employment prospects and thus, they are extremely underrepresented in the workforce. These challenges are even greater when the person has both cognitive and physical disabilities. While there is evidence supporting the benefits of employing individuals with disabilities in the workforce, employers are usually unprepared to hire individuals with disabilities. They are also concerned that the work productivity may be impacted by the employee with a disability. Thus, technology can play an important role in helping a person with cognitive and /or physical impairment work on tasks that require memorization and assembly performance. We will present a mobile technology system that was planned and piloted with working adults with physical and cognitive impairments. Founded on our pilot study, mobile technologies hold the potential to help people with disabilities to perform jobs that require memorization as well as systematic assembly tasks.