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Home help — [assistive technology]
Author(s)	Anthea Tinker, Claudine McCreadie, Alan Turner-Smith
Journal title	Housing Today, issue 380, 30 April 2004
Pages	pp 28-29
Source	www.housing-today.co.uk
Keywords	Technology ; Assistive technology ; Information technology ; Housing [elderly].
Annotation	A multidisciplinary team including building surveyors, rehabilitation engineers, an occupational therapist and social scientists have. recently completed a study on whether equipment and adaptations to housing can be made enabling older or disabled people to remain in their own homes. The study, which was carried out at King's College London and the University of Reading, was sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). It focused on 82 different properties belonging to five local authorities and five housing associations across the country. It assessed them in relation to the needs over 5 years of 7 hypothetical older people with different types and degrees of disability. The report, by the authors of this article is available from King's College London as "Introducing assistive technology into older people's existing homes: feasibility, acceptability, costs and outcomes". (RH)
Accession Number	CPA-040518204 A
Classmark	Y9: M: UVB: KE *
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