Transforming the personal digital assistant into a health-enhancing technology

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The personal digital assistant (PDA) has the potential to greatly benefit older adults as a memory aid, organizer, and virtual assistant that can remind the individual about appointments and medications and track health-relevant information. This technology can serve as the platform for numerous services and software that enhance quality of life for adults and older adults.

Electronic computers, Usage, Personal digital assistants, Personal digital assistant, Memory in old age, Old age memory, Pocket PC

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Silver industries and the new aging enterprise

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Carroll Estes in her influential book 'The Aging Enterprise' details and criticizes the evolution of an aging human-service sector supported by government funding. The path to the new Aging Enterprise of the future would come from orienting to the mind of the customer, as the competitive marketplace forces businesses to do.

Criticism and interpretation, The Aging Enterprise (Book), Estes, Carroll

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