Advancing the Aging and Technology Agenda in Gerontology
Advancing the Aging and Technology Agenda in Gerontology
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DOI：
10.1093/geront/gnu071
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发表时间：
2015-10-01
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影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Czaja, Sara J.
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作者：
Schulz, Richard;Wahl, Hans-Werner;Czaja, Sara J.
对老年人技术的兴趣是由多种趋同趋势驱动的：技术发展的快速步伐;美国和全世界人口老龄化的空前增长;残疾人数量和生存率的增加;照顾老年人的费用不断增加和不可持续;以及商业、工业和政府机构对利用技术解决医疗保健需求的兴趣日益增加。这些趋势促使人们坚信，技术可以在提高老年人的生活质量和独立性方面发挥重要作用，而且效率很高，有可能降低照顾老年人的个人和社会成本。这篇“论坛”立场文章的目的是整合我们对老年人和技术系统的了解，以便为这一重要企业提供方向。我们定义了我们的意思是技术为老龄化人口，提供了一个简短的历史，其发展，介绍了一个分类的特点，目前的技术应用到老年人，总结在这一领域的研究，描述现有的发展和评估过程，确定重要的因素，为老年人之间的技术接受，并建议在这一领域的研究未来的方向。
Interest in technology for older adults is driven by multiple converging trends: the rapid pace of technological development; the unprecedented growth of the aging population in the United States and worldwide; the increase in the number and survival of persons with disability; the growing and unsustainable costs of caring for the elderly people; and the increasing interest on the part of business, industry, and government agencies in addressing health care needs with technology. These trends have contributed to the strong conviction that technology can play an important role in enhancing quality of life and independence of older individuals with high levels of efficiency, potentially reducing individual and societal costs of caring for the elderly people. The purpose of this "Forum" position article is to integrate what we know about older adults and technology systems in order to provide direction to this vital enterprise. We define what we mean by technology for an aging population, provide a brief history of its development, introduce a taxonomy for characterizing current technology applications to older adults, summarize research in this area, describe existing development and evaluation processes, identify factors important for the acceptance of technology among older individuals, and recommend future directions for research in this area.