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With continually improving health standards, elderly people tend to live longer and lead much longer active lives. The future elderly also tend to live more independently and are generally economically better off than previous generations so constituting an important group of (new) users of assistive devices.
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van Woerden, J.A. (1996). Information Technology and Applications for Elderly and Disabled People. In: Brenner, W., Kolbe, L. (eds) The Information Superhighway and Private Households. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48423-0_19
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