Use of in-home activity monitoring technologies in older adult veterans with mild cognitive impairment: The impact of attitudes and cognition.
Background: As researchers incorporate in-home technologies to identify and track changes in older adults' cognitive and daily functioning that could lead to early interventions, the attitudes of older adults across the continuum from normal cognitive aging to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) must be...
| Publicado en: | Gerontechnology Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 1 - 13 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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International Society for Gerontechnology
2021
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