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| Understanding older adults' attitudes and adoption of residential technologies | | Author(s) | Mira Ahn, Julia O Beamish, Rosemary Carruci Goss |
| Corporate Author | Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management, Virginia Tech, USA |
| Publisher | 2008 |
| Source | Download (19/5/09) from website: http://www.informedesign.umn.edu/Rs_detail.aspx?rs... |
| Keywords | Assistive technology ; Technology ; Housing [elderly] ; Attitude ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This US study examined older adults' attitudes toward and knowledge of residential technologies. It found that most older people prefer to remain in their homes as they age, but the home environment presents increasing challenges. The study investigates the role of technologies in helping older people to 'age in place'. It explores residential technologies more easily adopted by older people (e.g. mobile phones) to help understand how further technologies could be designed to support independent living. Usability and accessibility remained key priorities for older people. This featured email article on the website of InformeDesign is adapted from one that appeared in the Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal (American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences), pp 243-260, 2008. InformeDesign, a clearinghouse for design and human behaviour research, is a close working collaboration between the American Society of Interior Designers and the University of Minnesota. It has been created and sponsored to bring research and practice aspects of the design professions together; and to bring research from an array of reputable research sources to the design community to address the complex challenges that face designers today. (www.informedesign.umn.edu/Default.aspx). (KJ/RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-090519202 E |
| Classmark | M: Y9: KE: DP: 3F: 7T |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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