Elderly and technology tools: a fuzzyset qualitative comparative analysis

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1969-1982

  Mostaghel, Rana ^a   Oghazi, Pejvak ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gerontechnology; Health and ability characteristics; QCA; Senior technology acceptance model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979200921     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-016-0390-6     Document Type: Article

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