Introducing GARMI - A Service Robotics Platform to Support the Elderly at Home: Design Philosophy, System Overview and First Results

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 5857-5864
Author(s):  
Mario Trobinger ◽  
Christoph Jahne ◽  
Zheng Qu ◽  
Jean Elsner ◽  
Anton Reindl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Service Robotics ◽  
Design Philosophy ◽  
First Results ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals The Effect of Loneliness on Death Anxiety in the Elderly During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282110105
Author(s):  
Türkan Akyol Guner ◽  
Zeynep Erdogan ◽  
Isa Demir
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Average Score ◽  
City Center ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
North West ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Education Status ◽  
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The aim of the study is to determine the effect on death anxiety of loneliness in the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The population of this study that is descriptive and cross-sectional type consist of 354 elderly who meet the inclusion criteria from three different associations operating for charitable purposes in a city center located in north-west Turkey. The average score of Loneliness Scale of Elderly (LSE) of the elderly was determined as 11.39 ± 5.31, and the average score of Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) of the elderly was determined as 8.54 ± 4.82. According to these results, it was found that the elderly experienced acceptable levels of loneliness and moderate death anxiety. A statistically significant difference was found in the LSE and DAS scores of the elderly according to their age, marital status, education status, chronic illness status and living at home with relatives. In addition, during the COVID-19 epidemic, the scale scores of the elderly who have increased worries, who have a hobby at home, and who communicate with their relatives via social media/mobile phones were found to be statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A look at the elderly at home and abroad

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-162
Author(s):  
Lenore B. Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
At Home

Clothing for the elderly at home and in nursing homes

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELSA ROSENBLAD-WALLIN ◽  
MARIANNE KARLSSON
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
At Home

scholarly journals Oral health status in a group of the elderly population residing at home

Gerodontology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. e761-e767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haviye Erverdi Nazliel ◽  
Nur Hersek ◽  
Murat Ozbek ◽  
Ergun Karaagaoglu
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Oral Health Status ◽  
At Home

CARE OF THE ELDERLY SICK AT HOME WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT?

The Lancet ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 308 (7995) ◽  
pp. 1127-1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.T Opit ◽  
S.M Shaw
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
At Home

Homicide among the Elderly: The Metro Dade County Experience, 1979–83

1986 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur R. Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Blunt Trauma ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Gunshot Wound ◽  
White Male ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Medical Examiner ◽  
Dade County ◽  
Homicide Victim ◽  
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The elderly homicide victim was studied. A total of 129 homicide cases in which the decedent was aged 65 years or more were collected from the records of the Office of the Medical Examiner between the years 1979–83. The cases were then analysed as to age, race, sex, cause of death, results of toxicology, and scene circumstances. The protatypical victim was found to be a 65– to 85-year-old white male who died from either a gunshot wound or blunt trauma resulting from a robbery or burglarly at home. Suggestions are given on how to avoid such tragedies.

Lessons Learnt from the Socio-Technical Design of Social TV Services with Elderly

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malek Alaoui ◽  
Myriam Lewkowicz
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Technical Design ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Social Tv ◽  
The Social ◽  
At Home

Encouraging elderly people to stay at home as long as possible is associated with a higher risk of social isolation. Nowadays, aging well at home cannot be reduced to the management of physical and cognitive frailties and technologies should also tackle the quality of life of the elderly by fostering their social interactions. However, designing appropriate services and ensuring their adoption remain open questions, to which we try to provide answers at the methodological and instrumental levels. The authors present here a Living Lab approach to design communication services for elderly people at home. They illustrate this approach by describing their participation in a European project aiming at developing and evaluating Social TV services and they conclude with recommendations for the successful socio-technical design of services that foster the social engagement of elderly people.

scholarly journals RFID-Based Human Behavior Modeling and Anomaly Detection for Elderly Care

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 341-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui-Huang Hsu ◽  
Chien-Chen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Anomaly Detection ◽  
Intelligent System ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Behavior Modeling ◽  
Abnormal Behavior ◽  
Daily Movement ◽  
Movement Data ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
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This research aimed at building an intelligent system that can detect abnormal behavior for the elderly at home. Active RFID tags can be deployed at home to help collect daily movement data of the elderly who carries an RFID reader. When the reader detects the signals from the tags, RSSI values that represent signal strength are obtained. The RSSI values are reversely related to the distance between the tags and the reader and they are recorded following the movement of the user. The movement patterns, not the exact locations, of the user are the major concern. With the movement data (RSSI values), the clustering technique is then used to build a personalized model of normal behavior. After the model is built, any incoming datum outside the model can be viewed as abnormal and an alarm can be raised by the system. In this paper, we present the system architecture for RFID data collection and preprocessing, clustering for anomaly detection, and experimental results. The results show that this novel approach is promising.

scholarly journals At-home care : interactions between nurses and the elderly/family

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (spe1) ◽  
pp. 74-80
Author(s):  
Esperança Alves Gago ◽  
Manuel José Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Diagnostic Assessment ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Family ◽  
Home Context ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
At Home

OBJECTIVE: To understand the interaction process between the elderly and the family and the nurses during home care. METHODS: Grounded theory qualitative study in a community where 40% of the population is aged 65 or above. The collection of data was made via the non-participating observation of nursing practice during 41 home visits and semi-structured interviews to nurses, the elderly and the family. RESULTS: the following categories emerged - structural organization of at-home care, diagnostic assessment in context and therapeutic intervention in context. CONCLUSION: the central category was "Building the relationship in an at-home context", due to the fact that the relationship between the nurse, the elderly and the family is central across the entire care process. The relation is, simultaneously, the context for all the care and a therapeutic instrument.

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