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- Lundberg, Stefan, et al.
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Design of an evaluation of technology, organisation and care for extended living at home by persons suffering from acquired brain injury or dementia : From Virtuality to Reality
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Ingår i: Assistive Technology: From Virtuality to Reality. - 1586035436 ; , s. 343-347
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Assistive technology is expected to facilitate life at home for people with various kinds of cognitive disorder. To study the applicability and adaptation of a number of aids in the daily living at home a three-years project have been launched in Sweden. It consists of undertakings in three municipalities, each planned to comprise some twenty participants about sixty years of age and upwards, suffering either from an acquired brain injury or from dementia. The goal is to acquire knowledge and experience about technical aids, their appropriateness and adaptability to the caretakers and to the organisation supporting them. The housing companies play an important role for the development of the project, as many technical aids are intrinsically linked to the physical building structure. The authors are engaged in the evaluation of the entire project which is in its starting phase. This article outlines some basic principles of the planned evaluation.
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- Persson, Jan, 1941-, et al.
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Cost-effectiveness in rehabilitation of hearing impaired people.
- 2005
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Ingår i: Assistive Technology. - : IOS Press. - 1586035436 - 9781586035433 ; , s. 750-754
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The title of this book points towards the difficulty encountered in research and development carried out by laboratories to reach the users. From Virtuality to Reality aims at alerting developers so that they pay a particular attention to the outcome of their work. Inventive research as well as new technologies which have a very high potential in the field of assistive technology are described in this publication. Despite the fact that recent products take more and more frequently into account the specific needs of the handicapped people, there remains a long road ahead until these products become available to everyone. Assistive technology has to adapt to today’s fast technological developments. Because new technologies are developing too rapidly, there is no choice but to adapt to this ceaseless evolution. The elderly or handicapped people are facing more and more difficulties in interacting with the assistive technology experts. Technology is an essential component of the activity but it is even more important to take into account the human factor if the aim is to enable users to benefit from assistive technologies. As a consequence, developers must work with a unique objective based on a user-centered approach. This requires a multidisciplinary collaboration which is one of the prime movers of their research and also one of the keys of success.
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