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The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. Technology, however, has largely ignored the "human factor" and has often viewed the ageing individual as a malfunctioning machine whose deficiencies must be diagnosed - or as a set of limitations to be overcome by means of technological devices.§This volume aims at focusing on the subjective needs and fears of human beings deriving from the development and use of technology: this change of perspective - taking the human being and not technology first - may help us to become more sensitive to the ambivalences involved in the interaction between humans and technology, as well as to adapt technologies to the people that created the need for its existence, thus contributing to improve the quality of life of senior citizens.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Ageing and Technology
• Subtitle: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
• Author: Emma Domínguez-Rué, Linda Nierling
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• EAN: 9783837629576
• ISBN: 3837629570
• ID: 09127130
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag
• Weight: 458 g
• Dimensions: 149 × 224 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. January 2016

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