An increasing number of older adults report being socially isolated – potentially affecting many aspects of fulfilling, healthy, and safe golden years. At the same time, advances in novel mobile, online, and smart technologies afford new opportunities to stay connected to our loved ones or to our community peers, or to simply increase our quality of life by making access to services and products much easier. To this extent, older adults who live socially isolated could benefit from a greater digital participation; yet, the current ecosystem of design paradigms, interfaces, digital services, and knowledge excludes many of them from fully benefiting from these. We are proposing to break this cycle of digital marginalization / social isolation and empower older adults to live more independently and socially more connected through the design of new interactive technologies. We will investigate and design interactive, multimodal, and connected technologies that are inclusive of older adults’ needs, abilities, and contexts (technology outcomes). We aim to achieve this through a new design approach that is grounded in a transdisciplinary model of collaboration between diverse academic investigators (from computer science to user experience design and to narrative gerontology), target users, community stakeholders, and tech industry (practice outcomes). The resulting products consist of a set of new applications, deployed on emerging digital platforms (mobile, VR, tabletop, etc.) that will enable older adults’ increased participation in the digital space, reduce social isolation, and facilitate meaningful connections to family members. These will be evaluated through field deployments facilitated by the diverse range of our partner stakeholders (NGOs, service delivery organizations, community groups, tech companies, civic society organizations). This will produce new models of sustainable deployment of senior-centred digital tech (service delivery outcomes) as well as ethical and empowering design and community-driven tech development principles for such applications (policy outcomes).