Where is grandma? Home telecare, good aging and the domestication of later life

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 102-111

  Aceros, Juan C ^a   Pols, Jeannette ^b   Domènech, Miquel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active aging; Aging in place; Domestication; Later life; Telecare

Indexed keywords

AGING IN PLACE; BOUNDARY WORKS; DOMESTICATION; ELDERLY PEOPLE; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; LATER LIFE; TELE-CARE SYSTEMS; TELECARE;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 84924851628     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.01.016     Document Type: Article

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