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What is Integrated Policies

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Emerging Trends and Innovations in Privacy and Health Information Management
Articulated policies concerning complex issues and interventions and that transcend the boundaries of established and dissociated policy fields. Various similar notions are also used: policy coherence, cross-cutting policy-making, concerted decision-making, policy consistency, and policy co-ordination.
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The Contribution of Technologies to Promote Healthy Aging and Prevent Frailty in Elderly People
Cristina Albuquerque (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8470-4.ch006
Abstract
In this chapter, the author discusses the contribution of technological achievements and ICT applications to prevent or reverse frailty in elderly people and to promote active and healthy aging. After a theoretical and political reflection about the issues associated to a new paradigm of aging in current societies, the author underlines the potentialities of technology as a complementary mechanism to achieve alternative and innovative responses as well as integrated and multidimensional policies and actions.
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