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Conclusions
The increasing number of older people in the population points
to the need for concerted research efforts within the area of human
factors add aging. As this report suggests, there currently exist large
gaps In our knowledge base regarding the unplications of age-related
changes for the performance of everyday tasks and activities. It is
logical and appropriate for human factors speciadists to direct their
attention toward the problems of the elderly, since the discipline is
devoted to improving design for particular user populations. We
need to make older adults one of the target populations.
This report highlights some of the priorities for research ~ the
area of human factors and aging. It summarizes what is known
and demonstrates what ~ not known. Our conclusion is that hu-
man factors research for an aging population is both important and
promising as a target. We hope to encourage researchers to address
the general Sues rmsed, and we point out some specific directions
for research opportunities as examples. This report is not intended
to be exhaustive but rather to provide an overview of potential areas
of human factors research with regard to aging. It ~ acknowledged
that as human factors specialists begin to address the problems of
the elderly they will not only discover solutions to problems but wid
also discover additional research issues.
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Representative terms from entire chapter:
factors speciadists
