Comfort and medical ambivalence in old age

This article, based on three years of longitudinal research, analyzes the role of technology in creating or inhibiting comfortable lives in old age, from the perspective of elders themselves. By understanding the oldest old as technology users, we can appreciate elders as savvy tech-operators, ambivalent users, and non-users. Combining science and technology studies and medical sociology frameworks together provides a basis from which to examine technogenarians in action, (or chosen in-action), and the complex relationship between biotechnology and well-being.