MassAITC is hosting the Digital Frontiers in Frailty: Opportunities for Early Detection and Clinical Action Workshop. The free workshop will be held on January 23rd, 2026 at the Charles River Campus of UMass Amherst (formerly Mount Ida Campus) in Newton, MA and aims to bring together technologists (engineers, computer scientists, academic researchers, start-up founders) and clinicians (geriatricians, neurologists primary care providers) to redefine how we measure, assess, and provide time appropriate care for frailty. The workshop will include plenary speaker sessions from frailty and technology research experts, contributed poster and technology demo presentations, and a moderated discussion.

By 2060, it is estimated that nearly a quarter of the US population (over 95 million people) will be over the age of 65 and it is anticipated that a staggering 9.5 million older adults will be classified as frail — putting them at risk of adverse clinical outcomes, such as falls, hospitalizations, institutionalization, disability, and even mortality (Rubtsova 2019). With the rapid growth and adoption of wearables, home-based sensors, computer-vision systems, and powerful AI models, there is a large unmet opportunity to apply these technologies towards a digital, composite measure of frailty risk and now is the time to lay out the framework to act upon. To this end this workshop aims to accelerate the development of a wholistic measure of frailty, one that provides a more proactive opportunity for intervention by individuals (overall wellness and lifestyle factors) and more personalized health care from clinical providers to enable prevention of the progression of older adults to the more severe, i.e. irreversible stages of frailty.