Ambient Assistive Technologies (AAT): Socio-technology as a powerful tool for facing the inevitable sociodemographic challenges?

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Schülke, Astrid M ^a,b   Plischke, Herbert ^a,b   Kohls, Niko B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Peter Schilffarth Institut für Soziotechnologie PSI   (Germany)

^c SAMUELI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELDERLY CARE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF HELP; SOCIOECONOMICS; VISION;

AGING; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; LIGHTING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 77953037291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17475341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-5341-5-8     Document Type: Note

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