Curriculum Design and Program to Train Older Adults to Use Personal Digital Assistants.
The aim of this study was to demonstrate that many older adults can share in the potential benefits of using a personal digital assistant (PDA), including using the device as a memory aid for addresses and appointments, to improve medication adherence, and as a useful organizational tool and communi...
| Publicado en: | Gerontologist Vol. 45; no. 6; pp. 828 - 835 |
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Oxford University Press / UK
December 2005
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