根据联合国定义的老龄社会三个阶段，中国自2000年已进入老龄化社会。老年人的功能障碍除因老年疾病引起外，多数是由于器官的退行性改变导致的各种能力逐渐减退，这些人既不是疾病的患者，也不是达到功能障碍的残疾人，通常称为失能老人。老年人的康复主要依靠辅助技术来提高活动和参与的能力。本文介绍老年人对辅助技术的需求以及辅助技术在老年人康复中的作用和选用原则，并简要介绍老年人常用辅助技术。
According to the United Nations' definition of a three-stage aging society, China has entered into the aging society since 2000. As for the reason resulting in dysfunction of aged people, this paper points out that the majority is due to degenerative changes of the organs to cause the ability a gradual decline, besides the reason resulted from old-age disease. They are neither patients caused by diseases, nor people with disablities reaching the threshold on the continuum of disability; they might be called as aged people with disability. The rehabilitation of the aged people mainly relies on assistive technologies to improve the ability of activity and participation. The needs of assistive technology for old people as well as the role and selection principles of assistive technologies in rehabilitation of aged people are introduced in the paper. Finally, an overview of assistive technology for aged people is introduced in the paper.
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