Creating Age-friendly Communities Housing and Technology

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Medicine and Nursing; Age in Place; aids and adaptations; artificial intelligence; Australia; built environment; Canada; cardiology; citizen science; clinical care; co-design; community care; community networks; Connected Health; dementia; dementia-friendly environments; digital life-world; Disability; domestic settings; engagement; formal caregivers; gerontechnology; GIS; green care farms; ICT; informal caregivers; intergenerational; Intergenerational Relationships; living alone; loneliness; long-term care facilities; meaningful activities; n/a; nursing home; nursing homes; older adults; older age-friendly housing; older immigrants; older people; perspectives; physical environment/space; primary care; privacy; qualitative research methods; research ethics; retirement community; robots; rural ageing; scoping review; small-scale living; smart cities; smart health; Smart Technology; social connectedness; social interaction; spatial; technology; transition; U.S.; urban neighbourhoods; wearable devices
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036543994; 9783036544007; books978-3-0365-4399-4
• Access: Open Access

The "Creating Age-friendly Communities: Housing and Technology" publication presents contemporary, innovative, and insightful narratives, debates, and frameworks based on an international collection of papers from scholars spanning the fields of gerontology, social sciences, architecture, computer science, and gerontechnology. This extensive collection of papers aims to move the narrative and debates forward in this interdisciplinary field of age-friendly cities and communities.