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Gerotechnology : Research and Practice in Technology and Aging.
Title:
Gerotechnology : Research and Practice in Technology and Aging.
Author:
Burdick, David.
ISBN:
9780826197535
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Tables and Figures -- About the Authors -- Foreword by Sunkyo Kwon and David C. Burdick Timeless Technology for All Ages -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION A: Basic Aspects of Gerotechnology -- 1 Technology in Everyday Life for Older Adults -- 2 Perceptual Aspects of Gerotechnology -- 3 Designing Technology Based on Cognitive Aging Principles -- 4 Aging and Technology-Social Science Approaches -- SECTION B: Computers, Older Adults, and Caregivers -- 5 Why Older Adults Use or Do Not Use the Internet -- 6 Increasing Access to Reliable Information on the World Wide Web: Educational Tools for Web Designers, Older Adults, and Caregivers -- 7 Computer-Mediated Communication and Its Use in Support Groups for Family Caregivers -- SECTION C: Assistive Technology in the Home and Environment -- 8 Assistive Technology as Tools for Everyday Living and Community Participation While Aging -- 9 Monitoring Household Occupant Behaviors to Enhance Safety and Well-Being -- 10 Home, Safe Home: Household and Safety Assistive Technology -- 11 Technologies To Facilitate Health and Independent Living in Elderly Populations -- SECTION D: Models, Prototypes, and Specific Applications of Gerotechnology -- 12 Technology and the Culture of Change: Application of Aviation Human Factors Research to Health Care Systems -- 13 Driving Simulation and Older Adults -- 14 The Dr.Tong Louie Living Laboratory: A Unique Facility for the Research and Development of Assistive Technology -- 15 New Participative Tools in Product Development for Seniors -- SECTION E: Cautions, Integration, and Synthesis -- 16 Ethical Realities: The Old, the New, and the Virtual -- Epilogue: Applications to Aging Are Helping Human Factors and Ergonomics To Grow Up Right -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V.

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Abstract:
Two "megatrends" of modern culture are rapid population aging and the inexorable advances in various technologies encountered by the population at large. This comprehensive volume explores the intersections of technology with aging and serves as both a primer and reference for educators, students, researchers, and practitioners. It includes concepts from the basics of gerotechnology-person-environment fit-to the core activity fields-computer and assistive devices and their practical applications-to models, or prototypes for technical development and its application to everyday life. Thought-provoking concluding chapters address ethical concerns for the future as well as offer new perspectives or context to ideas and innovations explored earlier.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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