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Volume 18, Issue 1
4 February 2010
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Review Article| February 04 2010

Older People's Perceptions of Assistive Technology — An Exploratory Pan‐European Study

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2042-8685
Print ISSN: 1476-9018
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2010
Journal of Integrated Care (2010) 18 (1): 38–44.
https://doi.org/10.5042/jic.2010.0086

This paper describes a study undertaken to explore how assistive technology in the form of a wrist‐worn device is perceived by older people for whom it has been devised.

Keywords: Assistive technology, Independent living
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