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Title:

Human factors interventions for the health care of older adults / edited by Wendy A. Rogers, Arthur D. Fisk.

Publisher:

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Older people--Medical care--Congresses.
Human engineering--Congresses.
Cognition in old age--Congresses.
Communication devices for people with disabilities--Congresses.
Health Services for the Aged--organization & administration.
Cognition--Aged.
Home Care Services--Aged.
Human Engineering.
Self-Help Devices.

Other Authors:

Rogers, Wendy A. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96019971
Fisk, Arthur D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96019968
Conference on Human Factors and Health Care Interventions for Older Adults (2000 : Destin, Fla.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001020121

Notes:

Proceedings of a Conference on Human Factors and Health Care Interventions for Older Adults held February 24-26, 2000, Destin, FL. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Overview and general issues. Health care of older adults : the promise of human factors research / Arthur D. Fisk and Wendy A. Rogers ; Needs and requirements in health care for the older adult : challenges and opportunities for the new millennium / Barry H. Beith -- Cognitive issues. Consideration of memory functioning in health care intervention with older adults / Anderson D. Smith ; Cognitive-lingusitic aging : considerations for home health care environments / Constance Dean Qualls, Joyce L. Harris, and Wendy A. Rogers ; Medical uncertainty and the older patient : an ecological approach to supporting judgement and decision making / Alex Kirlik and Richard Strauss ; Excerise, aging and cognition : healthy body, healthy mind? Arthur F. Kramer ... [et al.] -- Home health care and caregiving. The state of telecommunication technologies to enhance older adults' access to health services / Pamela Whitten ; Overview and intervention approaches to family caregiving : decomposing complex psychosocial interventions / Richard Schulz, Sara Czaja, and Stephen Belle ; Telecommunication technology as an aid to family caregivers / Sara J. Czaja -- Technology and medicine. A patient-centered approach to automated telephone health communication for older adults / Daniel G. Morrow and Von O. Leirer ; Communication in health care tactics for older adults : the case of heart patients / Thomas B. Sheridan ... [et al.] ; Designing medical devices for older adults / Daryle Gardner-Bonneau -- Computers and health care. Computer interface issues for health self-care : cognitive and perceptual constraints / Neil Charness and Patricia Holley ; Searching the World Wide Web : can older adults get what they need? / Aideen J. Stronge, Neff Walker, and Wendy A. Rogers.

ISBN:

9780805823004
080582300X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)45804798

LCCN:

2001018977

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)