Galit Nimrod, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
For more than two decades, her research has examined aging, digital technologies, and well-being, with particular attention to later-life transitions such as retirement, health decline, and spousal loss.
She has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals and is the author of two sole-authored monographs published by Cambridge University Press, including Seniorland: Aging in a Retirement Metropolis (2025).
She was elected to the Academia Europaea and is involved in international research collaborations and academic and policy discussions on aging, digitalisation, and quality of life.

Aging under Pressure: Technostress, Surveillance, and Inequality in Later Life

This keynote critically examines how digitalisation reshapes later life by imposing new forms of pressure rather than fostering empowerment. Drawing on a series of studies on technostress among older adults, it first introduces technostress as a measurable and systematic threat to well-being in later life. It then demonstrates how technostress intensifies under adverse contexts, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and varies across national settings in relation to health, use patterns, and work status. The lecture culminates in an analysis of older workers, showing how perceived employer surveillance may intensify technostress and revealing new forms of inequality within digitalised workplaces.

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Deller is a Professor of Business Psychology at Leuphana University Lüneburg, with a focus on differential psychology, aptitude diagnostics, and organizational psychology. His applied research addresses questions of demographic change, aging workforces, later-life work, and international human resource management. He is closely associated with the development and application of the Later Life Workplace Index, which examines how organizations can better support older employees and extended working lives. His work bridges academic research and organizational practice, particularly in the areas of personnel management, work in later life, and sustainable HRM.

Later Life Workplace Index – Managing an age-inclusive workforce