scholarly journals TV-Based Caring Videophone System for the Elderly in the Smart Home Environment

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingshuang Shen ◽  
Chongyang Zhang ◽  
Chuanwen Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Interactive Video ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Physical And Psychological Health ◽  
Video And Audio ◽  
Remote Controller

A novel videophone system for the elderly-care application is proposed. Based on the detailed analysis of the elderly’s physical and psychological characteristics, a TV-based caring videophone system for the elderly is developed: an embedded multimedia device is designed to implement the interactive video and audio processing and IP-based communication, in which TV is adopted as the display terminal to achieve a low-cost but high-quality service. Considering the user’s convenience, many personalized designs, such as photo-based address book, photo-click-dialing, and touch pad based remote controller, are developed to make the proposed videophone system more intuitive and easy to use for the elderly. Based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms, an evaluation model is also developed with the data collected from the embedded multimedia device. It is useful to evaluate the physical and psychological health of the elderly.

scholarly journals Penerapan Konsep Healing Environment pada Strategi Perancangan Pusat Pelayanan Lanjut Usia di Surakarta

Arsitektura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Mintari Nur Aziza ◽  
Hari Yuliarso ◽  
Hardiyati Hardiyati
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Healing Environment ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Natural Approach ◽  
Physical And Psychological Health ◽  
Healing Garden

<p class="Abstract"><em>When entering the elderly phase, humans will experience a physical and psychological conditions declined, this causes the elderly to need special and different services compared to normal adults. In order to overcome these problems, also to reach Surakarta as an Elderly Friendly City, a Elderly Care Center is needed as a place that provides various services needed by the elderly. </em><em>This care center requires a healing environment concept that can create a conducive environment so that it can restore and improve physical and psychological health conditions of the elderly. In order to achieve healing environment, there are some approaches that can be done, such as the sensory approach (sense of sight, sense of touch, sense of hear, and sense of smell), natural approach (healing garden), and psychological approach. The method that used are observational studies to the community, field studies, and literature studies on related theories. The approaches og healing environment concept can be applied in the analysis of planning and design, so that will result the Eldelry Care Center with an environment where the elderly can easily adapt, feel comfortable, safe, and can support the recovery and improvement of the physical and psychological conditions of the elderly.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals Survival with Technology: Elderly Teachers’ Perspective Towards Emergency Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 98-114
Author(s):  
Faramarz Samifanni ◽  
Rose Leslie R Gumanit
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Physical And Psychological Health ◽  
Cost Implications

This study analyzed the content of YouTube news clips on elderly teachers concerning emergency online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using traditional content analysis, the included news videos were transcribed, interview segments were translated and familiarized, dominant words were identified, data were coded, categorized, and themed. Four dominant words were highlighted: online, students, teachers, and pandemic. Three themes on technical challenges and support needs, health issues, and resilience emerged in the analysis. Results show that elderly teachers are persistent to adapt to emergency online learning despite the struggles they are facing. The analysis also highlights the negative effects of the sudden shift to emergency online learning on the physical and psychological health of elderly teachers. Furthermore, the elderly teachers, are ensuring students’ access to education even at their own cost. Implications to the country’s quality of education and suggestions of providing better technical and psychological health support to elderly teachers were presented.

scholarly journals IndoorCare: Low-Cost Elderly Activity Monitoring System through Image Processing

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (18) ◽  
pp. 6051
Author(s):  
Daniel Fuentes ◽  
Luís Correia ◽  
Nuno Costa ◽  
Arsénio Reis ◽  
José Ribeiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Socially Excluded

The Portuguese population is aging at an increasing rate, which introduces new problems, particularly in rural areas, where the population is small and widely spread throughout the territory. These people, mostly elderly, have low income and are often isolated and socially excluded. This work researches and proposes an affordable Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)-based solution to monitor the activities of elderly individuals, inside their homes, in a pervasive and non-intrusive way, while preserving their privacy. The solution uses a set of low-cost IoT sensor devices, computer vision algorithms and reasoning rules, to acquire data and recognize the activities performed by a subject inside a home. A conceptual architecture and a functional prototype were developed, the prototype being successfully tested in an environment similar to a real case scenario. The system and the underlying concept can be used as a building block for remote and distributed elderly care services, in which the elderly live autonomously in their homes, but have the attention of a caregiver when needed.

Robotic Assistant for Elderly Care – Development and Evaluation

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasa Koceska ◽  
◽  
Saso Koceski ◽  
Vasko Sazdovski ◽  
Domenico Ciambrone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Control Paradigm ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Care Of Elderly ◽  
Robotic Assistant

Robots perform a variety of tasks and serve various purposes in the medical/health and social care sectors. Recently, interest has been growing in developing robotic assistants for health-related care of elderly people. These robotic systems can be used to improve the life of elderly, ensuring healthy and active ageing, thus extending the life expectancy of the elderly in their familiar home environments. In this paper, we present a low-cost telepresence robotic assistant that can assist elderly and professional caregivers in everyday activities. The robot can be operated manually or by using a shared control paradigm. The robot can also be used for interpersonal communication, thus favoring social integration. The developed robot and its navigation capabilities have been evaluated in simulations and experiments, and the evaluation results are reported.

Visualizing disparities in park access for the elderly in Shanghai, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-265
Author(s):  
Linxin Ouyang ◽  
Zhenxuan Yin ◽  
De Wang
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Population Data ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Census Tracts ◽  
External Ring ◽  
Ring Road ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Physical And Psychological Health

With China ageing rapidly, the health of the elderly has become a public concern. Access to urban parks, offering both physical and psychological health benefits to people, is critical for the elderly. To explore whether there are disparities in park access for the elderly, we collected and processed population data, point of interest and travel time from census tracts to parks by public transport in Shanghai. The visuals based on the data indicate that, in Shanghai, most of the elderly are able to reach large parks in 30 minutes, but gaps remain in the number of accessible parks. Although the ageing population living between the inner ring road and the external ring road is as large as that inside the inner ring road, the number of accessible parks for this population is much lower than for the latter.

scholarly journals An Elderly Care System Based on Multiple Information Fusion

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Zhiwei He ◽  
Dongwei Lu ◽  
Yuxiang Yang ◽  
Mingyu Gao
Keyword(s):  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Control Board ◽  
Video Images ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Care System

With the development of social economy in the 21st century, and the rising of medical level, the aging of population have become a global trend. However lots of elderly people are in “empty nest” state. In order to solve the problem of high risk of daily life in this group, this paper proposed a method to integrate the information of video images, sound, infrared, pulse, and other information into the elderly care system. The whole system consists of four major components, that is, the main control board, the information acquisition boards, the server, and the client. The control board receives, processes and analyzes the data collected by the information acquisition boards, and uploads necessary information to the server, which are to be saved to the database. When something unexpected occurs to the elderly, the system will notify the relatives through the GPRS (general packet radio service) module. The system also provides an interface for the relatives to inquire the living status of the elderly through an app. The system can monitor the living status for the elderly with the characteristics of quick response, high accuracy, and low cost and can be widely applied to the elderly care at home.

scholarly journals Description Of Independence Level Elders to Fulfill ADL(Activity Daily Living

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-159
Author(s):  
Ratna Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Research Design ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Good Health ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Physical And Psychological Health ◽  
High Level

The influence of the aging process can a variety of problems both physically, mentally and economically so as to affect the fulfillment of the ADL (Activity Daily Living). The level of ability of the elderly in activity can be measured by the level of independence of elderly in performing 6 basic activities include bathing, dressing, toileting, moving, continence and eating.. Method: The research design was description design. The population was 80 elders in UPT PSLU Blitar, the sample was 44 by purposive sampling technique. Data were collected by  interviews guided. Result : The results showed that 86.4% 6 independent activities, 11.4% 5 activities, and 2.3% 4 activities. Elderly that has a high level of independence is has physical and psychological health and sufficient prima. Discussion : By getting a good health the elderly can perform any activity in their everyday lives. It is expected that the results of this study, carers must keep the safety of elders in activities to prevent deterioration in elderly activities which could be due to fall or hurt.

scholarly journals Shintaido in the elderly: The new way for physical and psychological health

2012 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattia Roppolo ◽  
Anna Mulasso ◽  
Daniele Magistro ◽  
Antonella Roggero ◽  
Patrizio Andreoli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Physical And Psychological Health
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