Interactive calendar to help maintain social interactions for elderly people and people with mild cognitive impairments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5597 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 117-124

  Descheneaux, Céline ^a   Pigot, Hélène ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ageing; Calendar; Elderly; Intuitive tools; Memory aid; Social interactions

Indexed keywords

AGEING; CALENDAR; ELDERLY; INTUITIVE TOOLS; MEMORY AID; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

HEALTH;

EID: 70350405075     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02868-7_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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