Meeting Seniors' Information Needs: Using Computer Technology

Home Health Care Management and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 328-335

  Campbell, Robert James ^a  

^a University in Greenville   (United States)

Author keywords

aged; computers; digital divide; health care; information; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449128886     PISSN: 10848223     EISSN: 15526739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084822307310765     Document Type: Article

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