Fiorini, Laura http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5784-3752
Rovini, Erika
Sorrentino, Alessandra
Khalid, Omair
Coviello, Luigi
Radi, Lorenzo
Toccafondi, Lara
Cavallo, Filippo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (857188)
Article History
Received: 7 December 2020
Accepted: 24 December 2021
First Online: 3 February 2022
Declarations
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: The authors declare to have not conflicted of interest. All procedures performed in the study fulfilled the Declaration of Helsinki, and the AAL guidelines for Ethics, Data Privacy, and Security available at ExternalRef removed.
: The study is not clinical and human participants are only required to answer some questions connected to the expectation toward technology for aging well before and after the covid-19 emergency. Therefore, approval of such a specific protocol from an ethical committee is not binding under the current legal framework. Researchers were committed to the Ethics Code on data processing for statistics and scientific research purposes issued by the Italian Data Protection Authority under article 20 Legislative Decree 101/2018, even if surveys and interviews were undertaken in a pseudonymized way and data elaborated as anonymous ones.
: Before starting the online questionnaire, all participants were informed that their participation was based fully on their free consent and that the collected data would be aggregated and analyzed by the principal investigator of the study exclusively for the described scientific purposes (see Supplementary Materials). If they agreed, they could have continued with the questionnaire; otherwise, they could have withdrawn from the study without any consequences. For the interviews, the recruitment of participants was conducted by the project manager of Umana Persone, which shall have informed them about the purpose of the interviews and the entire study. An informed consent template adapted to the COVID-19 procedures to undertake the interviews was delivered to the candidates. Only those who agreed to join the study have been then contacted for the online interview. Before starting, according to the above-mentioned protocol, the interviewer followed the agreed ethics checklist to ensure that each participant was aware of the characteristics of the study and consent to proceed to answer the proposed questions (see Supplementary Materials).