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Managing Telehealth and Telecare

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Pervasive Health

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This chapter expands on one theme of the overall book [65]: how to support flexible and automated management of care at home. This requires techniques that allow people to effectively interact with a home care system.

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Turner, K.J. (2014). Managing Telehealth and Telecare. In: Holzinger, A., Ziefle, M., Röcker, C. (eds) Pervasive Health. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6413-5_7

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