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This raises challenging questions about the role of forgetting and remembering in the lives of older adults and a debate about if both are important—or is one more important to well-being than the other and what role should technology play in supplementing creating autobiographies and enhancing the practice of reminiscence and story-telling? What role will technology play in the interventions for those older adults with cognitive impairments? What are the ethical and legal issues that surround “perfect remembering” due to digital technologies? Perfect remembering—or that lack of forgetting—has interesting implications for research in our field where the cognitive capacity to remember (and function accordingly) and the fear of forgetting loom large in our literature.
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Felsted, K.F., Wright, S.D. (2014). Technology. In: Toward Post Ageing. Healthy Ageing and Longevity, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09051-1_10
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