Comfort and medical ambivalence in old age

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 141-146

  Loe, Meika ^a  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Active ageing; Biomedicine; Birth cohort; Everyday technologies; Gerontechnology; Well being

Indexed keywords

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

ACTIVE AGEING; BIOMEDICINE; BIRTH COHORT; GERONTECHNOLOGY; WELL BEING;

INNOVATION;

EID: 84924851954     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.04.013     Document Type: Article

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