Designing technologies for social connection with older people

Aging and the Digital Life Course

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 107-124

  Wherton, Joseph ^a   Sugarhood, Paul ^a,b   Procter, Rob ^c   Greenhalgh, Trisha ^d  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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