<p>Our study extends the theory of reverse socialization to the aging context, with the purpose of examining the concerns and challenges experienced by adult children when transmitting algorithmic and AI-powered aged care technologies to their aging parents. Building on existing literature, we propose a comprehensive typology that encompasses different dimensions of these concerns and challenges, including adult children’s struggles to afford and understand smart aged care technologies, resistance from aging parents towards adopting these technologies, and constraints perceived by adult children that their parents face in successfully incorporating these technologies into daily lives. Our study contributes to illuminating the complicated role of adult children, who act as agents of socialization and simultaneously co-learners grappling with catching up with the rapidly evolving technological landscape. This challenges the presumed linear process of technology transmission and instead reveals it as a process characterized by ongoing negotiations of power dynamics and dilemmas in the context of aging.</p>