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Internationally,’’ available on the National Health Service website at http://
www.nhssurveys.org/categories.asp?parent=117 and at http://www.modern.nhs.uk/
pursuingperfection.
29. James Pirkl, ‘‘Age Design’’ (lecture delivered at the Netherlands Design Institute,
Amsterdam, 1995; transcript available at http://www.zuper.com/portfolio/real_ndi/
publications/3d/pirkl.html).
30. Ibid.
31. In 2004, the European Design for Ageing Network (DAN) evolved into the
Include Network. An archive of DAN activities and publications is available at http://
www.hhrc.rca.ac.uk/programmes/designage/DAN.
32. A study of three thousand North American seniors by the Markle Foundation
found that fully 30 percent of them felt ‘‘a strong need to keep up with the latest
developments in technology’’ and that those aged eighty and over ‘‘care a lot about
their ability to learn how to work new electronic products.’’ In many respects older
people are advanced consumers of technology: They were the first group for whom
technology was a means, not an end in itself—a means, in particular, to better communications,
which are more important than gadgets and high-tech physical aids to
the welfare of older people.
33. ‘‘Digital Home Technologies for Aging in Place,’’ available on the Intel website at
http://www.intel.com/research/exploratory/digital_home.htm.
34. ‘‘CAST Work Programs,’’ available on the CAST website at http://www.agingtech
.org/workprograms.aspx.
35. Eric Britton’s paper ‘‘Rethinking Work: New Concepts of Work in a Knowledge
Society’’ was first published in 1993. Since then it has undergone continuous development
on the ‘‘New Ways to Work in an Information Society’’ website (http://
www.ecoplan.org/new=work/nw_index.htm).
36. For an insightful review of the changing job market, see Jonathan Cave, ‘‘Old
Bits in New Bytes: Implications of the ‘New’ Economy of Information, Knowledge
and Belief for Working Life’’ (paper presented at ‘‘eWork,’’ Helsinki, Finland, September
12, 2001, available at http://www.telework2001.fi/Cave.ppt).
37. The Conference Board, ‘‘U.S. Job Satisfaction Hits Record Low’’ (press release,
September 18, 2003, available at http://www.conference-board.org/utilities/
pressDetail.cfm?press_ID=2227).
38. Fabiana Scapolo and Gustavo Fahrenkrog, Employment and Welfare in 2010
(Seville, Spain: European Commission Directorate-General’s Joint Research Centre,
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, 1999, available at http://futures.jrc
.es/reports/introfutures-vs6.pdf).