Ubiquitous and Ambient Assisted Living eHealth Platforms for the Republic of Panama: Two Cases of Study

2015 ◽  
pp. 138-147
Author(s):  
Juan Jose Saldaña ◽  
Luis Mendoza ◽  
Edgardo Pitti ◽  
Miguel Vargas Lombardo
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
The Republic

Ubiquitous and ambient-assisted living eHealth platforms for Down’s syndrome and palliative care in the Republic of Panama: A systematic review

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-367
Author(s):  
Juan Jose Saldaña Barrios ◽  
Luis Mendoza ◽  
Edgardo Pitti ◽  
Miguel Vargas
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Risk Estimation ◽  
Down's Syndrome ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Down’S Syndrome ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Republic

In this work, the authors present two eHealth platforms that are examples of how health systems are migrating from client-server architecture to the web-based and ubiquitous paradigm. These two platforms were modeled, designed, developed and implemented with positive results. First, using ambient-assisted living and ubiquitous computing, the authors enhance how palliative care is being provided to the elderly patients and patients with terminal illness, making the work of doctors, nurses and other health actors easier. Second, applying machine learning methods and a data-centered, ubiquitous, patient’s results’ repository, the authors intent to improve the Down’s syndrome risk estimation process with more accurate predictions based on local woman patients’ parameters. These two eHealth platforms can improve the quality of life, not only physically but also psychologically, of the patients and their families in the country of Panama.

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.

scholarly journals Contactless Interactive Fall Detection and Sleep Quality Estimation for Supporting Elderly with Incipient Dementia

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-391
Author(s):  
Roman Siedel ◽  
Tobias Scheck ◽  
Ana C. Perez Grassi ◽  
Julian B. Seuffert ◽  
André Apitzsch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Fall Detection ◽  
Quality Estimation ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Affected Person ◽  
Development State ◽  
Current Behaviour

AbstractIn recent years, the demographic change in conjunction with a lack of professional caregivers led to retirement homes reaching capacity. The Alzheimer Disease International stated that over 50 million people suffered from dementia in 2019 worldwide and twice the amount will presumably be effected in 2030. The field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) tackles this problem by facilitating technical system-aided everyday life. AUXILIA is such an AAL system and does not only support elderly people with dementia in an early phase, but also monitors their activities to provide behaviour analysis results for care attendants, relatives and physicians. Moreover, the system is capable of recognizing emergency situations like human falls. Furthermore, sleep quality estimation is employed to be able to draw conclusions about the current behaviour of an affected person. This article presents the current development state of AUXILIA.

scholarly journals Medical Virtual Instrumentation for Ambient Assisted Living: Part 1 Concepts

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 167-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olufemi Adeluyi ◽  
Jeong-A Lee
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Virtual Instrumentation
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