Steering Committee for the Workshop on Technology for Adaptive Aging ; Richard Pew and Susan Van Hemel, editors ; Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
"The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance"--Title page verso.
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Includes papers, discussion, and revisions from a workshop held January 23-24, 2003 at the National Academy of Sciences.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction and overview -- Cognitive aging -- Movement control in the older adult -- Methodological issues in the assessment of technology use for older adults -- Addressing the communication needs of an aging society -- Technology and employment -- Everyday health: technology for adaptive aging -- Technology and learning in current and future older cohorts -- The Impact of technology on living environments for older adults -- Personal vehicle transportation.
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OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Technology for adaptive aging.
International Standard Book Number
0309091160
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Older people-- Health and hygiene-- United States, Congresses.
Older people-- United States, Congresses.
Aged.
Aging-- physiology.
Quality of Life.
Self-Help Devices.
Technology.
Altenarbeit
Altenpflege
Alterssoziologie
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Aging.
Older people-- Health and hygiene.
Older people.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Gerontology.
Technologie
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States.
United States.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
FAM-- 005000
SOC-- 013000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
305
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26/0973
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HQ1064
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U5
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
MS
2700
Class number
2004
F-186
Class number
WT
104
Book Number
W9268t
2004
System Code
rvk
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Pew, Richard W.
Van Hemel, Susan B.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Workshop on Technology for Adaptive Aging(2003 :, Washington, D.C.)
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
National Research Council (U.S.)., Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences.
National Research Council (U.S.)., Steering Committee for the Workshop on Technology for Adaptive Aging.