User responses to assisted living technologies (Alts) - a review of the literature

Journal of Integrated Care

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 25-32

  Damodaran, Leela ^a   Olphert, Wendy ^b  

^a Change Management ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assisted living technologies; Telecare; Telehealth; User needs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953564312     PISSN: 14769018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5042/jic.2010.0133     Document Type: Article

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