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 Mount Ida Campus of UMass Amherst 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.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION - FREE
This hybrid format workshop is being provided free of charge by MassAITC. In-person attendees will experience the full program with lunch, coffee, and snacks provided. A subset of the worksop’s programs will also be available for remote attendees. When registering using the button below, we kindly request that you select the option for attendance that aligns with your plans as there are limited spots available for in-person attendees. If your plans change, please contact us as soon as possible.
Poster Presentation Submissions
The workshop is seeking posters from clinician scientists and researchers (academic and industry) focused broadly on Frailty Syndrome and Resilience from implementation of clinical diagnostic practices to the discovery of novel biomarkers.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
Applications of AI & Technology to Frailty
Epidemiology and Measurement
Early life risk factors of frailty
Measurement of pre-frailty
Characterization of trajectory of frailty development or transitions between frailty states and their implications in clinical care including care transitions
Frailty and other geriatric syndromes (e.g. Cognitive impairment, falls) and their unique and/or intersecting pathophysiology
Novel biomarkers of pre-frailty/frailty and/or resilience
Frailty and Clinical Care
Frailty and comorbidity: distinguishing frailty and disease specific pathology
Innovative clinical trials of interventions either targeting frailty and related biology or improving clinical and community care of pre-frail and frail older adults
Poster submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis through Friday, January 9th. Review of earliest submissions will begin on Monday, December 8th.
Device Demo Submissions
The workshop is seeking device demonstrations from industry and academia alike. Demos should describe a technology or system that could be applied to measuring frailty and how it will be demonstrated at the workshop.
Technologies of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
wearables
implantables
wearables
ambient and remote sensing
virtual and augmented reality
integrated systems and platforms
large language models (LLMs) and generative AI
Device demonstration submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis through Friday, January 9th. Review of earliest submissions will begin on Monday, December 8th.
Important Dates
Workshop: January 23rd, 2026
Poster and Device Demo Submissions: Accepted on a rolling basis with a final acceptance date of submission on January 9th, 2026. Review of earliest submissions will begin on Monday, December 8th
