Time diaries are a well-established method for providing population estimates of the amount of time and types of activities respondents carry out over the course of a full day. This article focuses on a computer-assisted telephone application developed to collect multiple, same-day 24-hour diaries from older couples who participated in the 2009 Panel Study of… Continue reading Measuring Time Use of Older Couples: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Background In an aging society, it is increasingly important to understand how assistive devices can be used by older people to maintain quality of life despite chronic disabilities. Assistive technology is a mainstay of physical therapist practice, but the potential for device use to affect psychosocial well-being is not yet understood at the population level.Objective… Continue reading A Quality-of-Life Scale for Assistive Technology: Results of a Pilot Study of Aging and Technology