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Purpose As the field of AgeTech research expands, and more projects and networks are formed to harness the potential of technology to improve health, wellbeing, social participation and work opportunities for older people, a call for more theoretically grounded research has surfaced (Sixsmith et al., 2020). This theoretical emphasis is based on the notion that current projects can run the risk of producing technologies that do not reach the market and thereby solve problems for which they were designed. A key reason appears to be relative inattention to the inclusion of older people as key partners within the research process. Method Taking a transdisciplinary approach (Boger et al., 2017) to AgeTech necessitates the integration of different theoretical perspectives from relevant disciplinary, cross-sectoral and experiential knowledge bases such that innovative conceptual models can be formed and drive research …