A food intake monitoring system to provide nutritional management for elderly people...9th World Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG), June 18-21, 2014, Taipei, Taiwan.
Purpose The elderly make up the greatest proportion of people in Taiwan1. The health of elderly people not only affects the elderly but also has significant impacts on health care and other support systems. Past research that examines the relationship between adequate nutrition and health find that...
| Publicado en: | Gerontechnology Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 227 - 228 |
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