Telegerontology®: a new technological resource for elderly support

• Millán, José C. ^[1] ; Maseda, Ana ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade da Coruña

     Universidade da Coruña

     A Coruña, España

     
• Localización: Handbook of research on personal autonomy technologies and disability informatics / Javier Pereira-Loureiro (ed. lit.), 2011, ISBN 9781605662060, págs. 331-345
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • One of the priorities of a modern society must be to offer all individuals the possibility to access all resources available. In this sense, there are still great dffirences even among well-developed countries when it comes to facing shortages in two important groups, elderly people and disabled people, even more so in the case of elderly people who are also disabled. The amazing progress of remote ICT applied to this field has meant spectacular advances, some of which will be described in this chapter. We will also devote one section to future tendencies and finally, we will focus on the system called Telegerontology®, which apart from including the basic principles of accessibility and usability, also includes those of gerontology attention, i.e., the capacity to assess the patient before the intervention.