Safe at Home with Assistive Technology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kollak, Ingrid. (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Geriatric nursing.; Rehabilitation.; Occupational therapy.; Physiotherapy.; Biomedical engineering.; Health economics.; Medical economics.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319428901
• Physical Description: VIII, 230 p. 48 illus., 29 illus. in color. online resource.

This book describes how assistive technology can help handicapped, elderly and acutely sick people to manage their daily lives better and stay safe in the home. It discusses how safety is understood from an ethical, technical and social perspective, and offers examples of the problems that users, th...