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The impact of ICT on older people's living conditions and environment
— summary highlights from the Value Ageing WP3 final report: draft for validation | | Author(s) | Ela Krawczyk |
| Publisher | Queens University Belfast, Belfast, 2013 |
| Pages | 18 pp |
| Source | Link to final report: http://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/files/8731138/Krawczy... |
| Keywords | Assistive technology ; Information technology ; Housing [elderly] ; Quality of life ; European Union ; Projects. |
| Annotation | Information communication technology (ICT) developments have the potential to improve older people's living conditions and environment. This is an earlier version of Part B of 'ICT developments impacting on older people's living conditions and environment' (same author, 2013). It was prepared as part of the European Union Value Ageing project, which aims to deepen interdisciplinary research on ethical, legal, social and human rights implications of ICT for ageing; and to effectively integrate and embed EU fundamental values in the development and deployment of new assistive technologies. This summary considers: ICT and cognitive and physical functions, social and emotional life, and older people's living conditions and environment; ICT as a resource for ageing well; risks of isolation and ghettoisation associated with ambient assisted living technologies; and whether the EC definition of ageing well is ethically and politically tenable. Part A of the final report includes ethical issues relating to the social web for older people, e-health and telemedicine; and issues relating to housing design and smart homes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130913205 P |
| Classmark | M: UVB: KE: F:59: WFC: 3E * |
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