ICT-Supported Interventions Targeting Pre-frailty: Healthcare Recommendations from the Personalised ICT Supported Service for Independent Living and Active Ageing (PERSSILAA) Study

2018 ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rónán O’Caoimh ◽  
D. William Molloy ◽  
Carol Fitzgerald ◽  
Lex Van Velsen ◽  
Miriam Cabrita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Independent Living ◽  
Active Ageing

scholarly journals Age-Friendly Built Environment

Encyclopedia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 781-791
Author(s):  
Hing-Wah Chau ◽  
Elmira Jamei
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
World Health ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
Wide Range

Age-friendly built environments have been promoted by the World Health Organisation (WHO, Geneva, Switzerland) under the Global Age-friendly Cities (AFC) movement in which three domains are related to the built environment. These are: housing, transportation, outdoor spaces and public buildings. The aim is to foster active ageing by optimising opportunities for older adults to maximise their independent living ability and participate in their communities to enhance their quality of life and wellbeing. An age-friendly built environment is inclusive, accessible, respects individual needs and addresses the wide range of capacities across the course of life. Age-friendly housing promotes ageing in familiar surroundings and maintains social connections at the neighbourhood and community levels. Both age-friendly housing and buildings provide barrier-free provisions to minimise the needs for subsequent adaptations. Age-friendly public and outdoor spaces encourage older adults to spend time outside and engage with others against isolation and loneliness. Age-friendly public transport enables older adults to get around and enhances their mobility. For achieving an age-friendly living environment, a holistic approach is required to enable independent living, inclusion and active participation of older adults in society. The eight domains of the AFC movement are not mutually exclusive but overlap and support with one another.

scholarly journals Active Ageing in CIS Countries: Semantics, Challenges, and Responses

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Sidorenko ◽  
Asghar Zaidi
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Relative Number ◽  
Accelerated Ageing ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Societal Consensus ◽  
Cis Countries

Although the CIS countries are connected together by the legacy of breaking away from the Soviet Union, they have had a distinctive transition course and are rather diverse in terms of the population ageing challenges and policy responses in place. The commonality is that a comprehensive national strategy on ageing is lacking, and many of necessary reforms were put aside owing to political uncertainties, lack of societal consensus, and financial instability. The notion of active ageing is associated with the term “accelerated ageing,” which is understood to be an individual living a life under harsh living conditions or a society experiencing rapid increases in the relative number of older persons, and therefore it carries a negative connotation. Yet, in the same spirit as the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012, the CIS countries have initiated sectoral programmes towards enhancing employment of older workers, social participation of older people in the society in a wider sense and also measures promoting health and independent living of older persons.

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.

scholarly journals ICT services for active ageing and independent living: identification and assessment

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christophoros Christophorou ◽  
Styliani Kleanthous ◽  
Dimosthenis Georgiadis ◽  
Donato M. Cereghetti ◽  
Panayiotis Andreou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Independent Living ◽  
Active Ageing

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.

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