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This paper is about challenges of technological and media innovations concerning elderly's quality of life. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) aims at producing technological and media support to help elderly people to stay at their homes longer. There are many different projects on how to reach this goal, mostly with technological background. This paper tries to point out pedagogical and psychological positions in order to reflect innovations critically. This paper concentrates on creation, design, performance and effects of these innovations.

The discussion about Ambient Assisted Living started when political entities couldn't ignore the fact of the demographic change any longer. The European Union, for example, started a program called AAL to support projects that produce innovative devices for old people. One regional project is about the medium IPTV that should inform, train und support elderly so that they can …