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Encouraging wellness at home is a necessary step in alleviating the healthcare system, but also a vehicle for promoting independence and quality of life among older adults. Even though much healthcare research is focused on autism, asthma, diabetes, to mention a few, depression caused by isolation is a serious condition related to healthy aging and outcomes. Addressing communication patterns across housing options might bring us closer to understanding and preventing social isolation and loneliness among older people. This paper discusses a research-based iterative process of applied within subjects survey and action research studies for designing communication technology devices for older adults. The relevance of this project is to understand the role of design and technology for adoption, home care affecting an independent healthy aging.
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Winegarden, C., Jones, B. (2009). Sympathetic Devices: Communication Technologies for Inclusion Across Housing Options. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Intelligent and Ubiquitous Interaction Environments. UAHCI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5615. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02710-9_15
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