
75People, Technology, and Usability
to provide for an active productive life of the elderly. As was concisely stated
in a United Nations report on aging:
The challenge for the future is “to ensure that people everywhere can
grow old with security and dignity and that they can continue to partici-
pate in social life as citizens with full rights.” At the same time “the rights
of old people should not be incompatible with those of other groups, and
reciprocal intergenerational relations should be encouraged.”
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The World Is Getting Older
Toward the end of the twentieth century, the population of our planet was
reported to have passed 6 billion, and ...