Technology for Adaptive Aging

Technology for Adaptive Aging
ISBN-10
0309091160
ISBN-13
9780309091169
Category
Social Science
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2004-04-25
Publisher
National Academies Press
Authors
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, Board on Behavioral

Description

Emerging and currently available technologies offer great promise for helping older adults, even those without serious disabilities, to live healthy, comfortable, and productive lives. What technologies offer the most potential benefit? What challenges must be overcome, what problems must be solved, for this promise to be fulfilled? How can federal agencies like the National Institute on Aging best use their resources to support the translation from laboratory findings to useful, marketable products and services? Technology for Adaptive Aging is the product of a workshop that brought together distinguished experts in aging research and in technology to discuss applications of technology to communication, education and learning, employment, health, living environments, and transportation for older adults. It includes all of the workshop papers and the report of the committee that organized the workshop. The committee report synthesizes and evaluates the points made in the workshop papers and recommends priorities for federal support of translational research in technology for older adults.

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