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14 - Gerontechnologies and Successful Aging

from Part I - Biomedical Aspects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2019

By
Daniel Gillain ,
Sébastien Piccard ,
Christelle Boulanger  and
Jean Petermans
Edited by
Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros ,
Athanase Benetos  and
Jean-Marie Robine
Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros
Affiliation:
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Athanase Benetos
Affiliation:
Université de Lorraine and Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) Nancy
Jean-Marie Robine
Affiliation:
INSERM
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Summary

Successful ageing is a multidisciplinary and complex concept. How to distinguish it from similar terms as healthy aging, active aging, well aging, and aging in place? To provide good quality of life, the development of a preventive, organized, multidisciplinary, early and evaluated policy to prevent loss of autonomy is essential. Gerontechnology is a discipline dedicated to the use of new technologies in the field of aging to maintain physical fitness, cognitive health, social links and emotional balance of the users. Assistive technologies, by replacing or compensating for diminished functionality, can restore some autonomy while relieving caregivers. Radical changes in society will deeply influence the practice of medicine. Tomorrow all the recorded health data will be transferred to mobile phone from capture on the skin (miniature epidermal captures or ‘‘electronic skin’’) and could be constantly updated the person on his/her medical situation from the cloud computer. The devices must help the persons and the care givers if necessary, in an accepted, efficient and ethical way. The participation and acceptance of the person is essential. But it is not already the time, that in the care system, human will be completely replaced by ‘‘companion’’ robots.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Successful Aging , pp. 221 - 236
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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