The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) have had prominent roles in discussions of aging, disability, and technology for decades

Emerging and currently available technologies offer great promise for helping older adults, even those without serious disabilities, to live healthy, comfortabl

Aging is a process that encompasses virtually all aspects of life. Because the speed of population aging is accelerating, and because the data needed to study t

The papers in this book provide important content related to aging, disability and independence. The focus of these papers is on maintaining independence and ac

It is not news that each of us grows old. What is relatively new, however, is that the average age of the American population is increasing. More and better inf