Older adults and care professionals’ view on ageing-in-place with assistive technologies
H. S. M Kort & T. Marquine Raymundo
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AbstractThe world population is ageing and ageing is accompanied by functional decline and in some cases also by mental decline. In the concept of gerontechnology, technologies can be designed beyond the functional difficulties. The project is executed as one of the first Memorandum of Understanding between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Society for Gerontechnology (Aspnes et al., 2022). The WHO report GREAT described Assistive Technologies (AT) as an umbrella term for assistive products and their related systems and services. AT is used to enable and promote social participation and compensate for the functional difficulties of persons with disabilities, ageing populations, and people living with chronic conditions. While AT comprises products, systems, and services, Gerontechnology, although often referred to as AT then for older people, beholds approaches in which technologies are designed and tested for full adoption in daily life. This brief report is part of a larger project on developing assessment criteria/evaluation metrics to assess the safety and effectiveness of technology to support active assisted living and ageing in place (AiP). The aim is to get a better understanding of AiP from the perspective of older people and care professionals.Keywords: older people, home care, healthy ageing, professional caregivers
H. S. M Kort & T. Marquine Raymundo (2024). Older adults and care professionals’ view on ageing-in-place with assistive technologies. Gerontechnology, 23(2), 2-2
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2024.23.s.1131.2.sp