Technology aids in maintaining quality of life in aging

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Jun 18 2011

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Los Angeles Times: Elder Care Goes High-Tech
Dorothy Rutherford is anxiously typing at her home computer, filling in answers to an online spelling game. Gerontologists say aging in place vastly improves the quality of life for seniors and is a lot cheaper for society than group homes and institutions. The trick is to do so without jeopardizing the health and safety of older people, which is why Rutherford is playing the word jumble game (Hamilton, 6/17).

This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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Tags: Aging, AIDS, Health Care, Research, Seniors, Technology

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