Research report 2010 - Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Aging and technology: The potential of new technologies from a behavioral sciences perspective

Authors
Lindenberger, Ulman
Departments
Entwicklungspsychologie (Lindenberger)
Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin
Summary
Regarding technology as providing opportunities for the future of aging may initially seem a strange notion. Opinions that older adults do not want to have anything to do with technology and that technological change places unreasonable demands on them and does not make their life easier, continue to be widespread. The opportunities that modern information technology can open up for the future of aging have only recently attracted research interest.

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