scholarly journals Enhancing Independent Living with Wearable Devices: The Wrist Wearable Unit in the USEFIL Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
James David Amor ◽  
Christopher James ◽  
Vijayalakshmi Ahanathapillai
Keyword(s):  
Independent Living ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Wearable Unit

scholarly journals The SHAPES Smart Mirror Approach for Independent Living, Healthy and Active Ageing

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (23) ◽  
pp. 7938
Author(s):  
Javier Dorado Chaparro ◽  
Jesus Fernandez-Bermejo Ruiz ◽  
Maria J. Santofimia Romero ◽  
Cristina Bolaños Peño ◽  
Luis Unzueta Irurtia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Neurodegenerative Diseases ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Technological Breakthrough ◽  
Computational Resources ◽  
At Home

The benefits that technology can provide in terms of health and support for independent living are in many cases not enough to break the barriers that prevent older adults from accepting and embracing technology. This work proposes a hardware and software platform based on a smart mirror, which is equipped with a set of digital solutions whose main focus is to overcome older adults’ reluctance to use technology at home and wearable devices on the move. The system has been developed in the context of two use cases: the support of independent living for older individuals with neurodegenerative diseases and the promotion of physical rehabilitation activities at home. Aspects such as reliability, usability, consumption of computational resources, performance and accuracy of the proposed platform and digital solutions have been evaluated in the initial stages of the pilots within the SHAPES project, an EU-funded innovation action. It can be concluded that the SHAPES smart mirror has the potential to contribute as a technological breakthrough to overcome the barriers that prevent older adults from engaging in the use of assistive technologies.

Personal Goals of Older Female Twins

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katariina Salmela-Aro ◽  
Sanna Read ◽  
Jari-Erik Nurmi ◽  
Markku Koskenvuo ◽  
Jaakko Kaprio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Environmental Effect ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Environmental Influence ◽  
Genetic Effect ◽  
Additive Genetic Effect ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
The Individual

This study examined genetic and environmental influences on older women’s personal goals by using data from the Finnish Twin Study on Aging. The interview for the personal goals was completed by 67 monozygotic (MZ) pairs and 75 dizygotic (DZ) pairs. The tetrachoric correlations for personal goals related to health and functioning, close relationships, and independent living were higher in MZ than DZ twins, indicating possible genetic influence. The pattern of tetrachoric correlations for personal goals related to cultural activities, care of others, and physical exercise indicated environmental influence. For goals concerning health and functioning, independent living, and close relationships, additive genetic effect accounted for about half of the individual variation. The rest was the result of a unique environmental effect. Goals concerning physical exercise and care of others showed moderate common environmental effect, while the rest of the variance was the result of a unique environmental effect. Personal goals concerning cultural activities showed unique environmental effects only.

Review of NILM applications in smart grids: power quality assessment and assisted independent living

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricio G. Donato ◽  
Alvaro Hernandez ◽  
Marcos A. Funes ◽  
Ignacio Carugati ◽  
Ruben Nieto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Power Quality ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Independent Living

Ambient Assisted Living Systems: The Scope of Research and Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Ashish D Patel ◽  
Jigarkumar H. Shah
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Aged Population ◽  
The People ◽  
Living Person

The aged population of the world is increasing by a large factor due to the availability of medical and other facilities. As the number grows rapidly, requirements of this segment of age (65+) are increasing rapidly as well as the percentage of aged persons living alone is also increasing with the same rate due to the inevitable socio-economic changes. This situation demands the solution of many problems like loneliness, chronic conditions, social interaction, transportation, day-to-day life and many more for independent living person. A large part of aged population may not be able to interact directly with new technologies. This sought some serious development towards the use of intelligent systems i.e. smart devices which helps the people with their inability to use the available as well future solutions. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is the answer to these problems. In this paper, issues related to AAL systems are studied. Study of challenges and limitations of this comparatively new field will help the designers to remove the barriers of AAL systems.

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