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Interest in health has grown enormously in recent years. This development is due to a change in perspective. For while the emphasis in the previous century was above all on medical protection in the case of an illness or accident, today it is on maintaining health into old age. The causes of this changed understanding of health lie in demographic and epidemiological changes; people are living longer and becoming ill in a different way, which is to say that what were acute illnesses are today chronic conditions.
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Kollak, I. (2017). Prerequisites: Assistive Technologies Between User Centered Assistance and ‘Technicalization’. In: Kollak, I. (eds) Safe at Home with Assistive Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42890-1_1
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