scholarly journals An Evaluation of Graphical Formats for the Summary of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Caroline A. Byrne ◽  
Michael O’Grady ◽  
Rem Collier ◽  
Gregory M. P. O’Hare
Keyword(s):  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Line Graph ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Daily Monitoring

Activities of Daily Living systems (ADLs) and the User Interface (UI) design principles used to implement them empowers the elderly to continue living a normal daily routine. The daily monitoring of activities for most Assisted Living (AL) systems demands/necessitates accurate daily user interaction, and the design principles for these systems often focus on the UI usability for the elder, not the caregiver/family member. This paper reviews Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and ADLs UI designs and evaluates the usability of ADLs visualisation tools for caregivers. Results indicate that the UI presenting information in a bar graph format was the preferred option for respondents, as 60% chose this summarisation method over the alternative line graph UI, which had 38% of respondents selecting this format for information representation. Therefore, when designing Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) UIs, it is recommended that short periods of time are best presented in a pie graph format in combination with a bar graph format for representing extended timeline information to caregivers about their loved ones.

scholarly journals A Review and Classification of Assisted Living Systems

Information ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Byrne ◽  
Rem Collier ◽  
Gregory O’Hare
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Living ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Active Aging ◽  
Reasonable Accuracy ◽  
Aging Research ◽  
Social Agenda ◽  
Flexible Infrastructure

Europe’s social agenda for the “active elderly” is based upon a series of programs that provide a flexible infrastructure for their lives so that they are motivated, engaged in lifelong learning, and contributing to society. Economically speaking, Europe must engage in active aging research in order to avoid unsustainable health costs, and ambient assisted living (AAL) systems provide a platform for the elderly to remain living independently. This paper reviews research conducted within the area of AAL, and offers a taxonomy within which such systems may be classified. This classification distinguishes itself from others in that it categorises AAL systems in a top-down fashion, with the most important categories placed immediately to the left. In this paper, each section is explored further, and AAL systems are the focus. Entire AAL systems still cannot be fully evaluated, but their constituent technical parts can be assessed. The activities of daily living (ADLs) component was given further priority due to its potential for system evaluation, based on its ability to recognise ADLs with reasonable accuracy.

scholarly journals Usability Heuristic Evaluation in AAL Ecosystems

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Romeiro ◽  
Pedro Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
End User

In the past few  years there has been a significant growth of the elderly population   in both developing and developed countries. This event provided new economic, technical and demographic challenges to current societies in several areas and services. Among them the healthcare services can be highlighted, due to its impact in people daily lives. As a natural response an effort has been made by both the scientific and industrial community to develop alternatives, which could mitigate the current healthcare services bottlenecks and provide means in aiding and improve the end-user life quality. Through a combination of information and communication technologies specialized ecosystems have been developed, however multiple challenges arose, which compromise their adoption and acceptance among the main stakeholders, such as their autonomy, robustness, security, integration, human-computer interactions and usability. As consequence an effort has been made to deal with the technical related bottlenecks, which shifted the development process focus from the end-user to the ecosystems technological impairments. Despite there being user related issues, such as usability, which still remains to be addressed. Therefore this article focuses over the ecosystem’s usability through the analysis of the process used to check the ecosystem’s compliance level with the usability guidelines from Jakob Nielsen and Shneiderman; and the identification of the quantifiable parameters for each principle that could aid in the heuristics evaluation process by maximizing its objectivity improve its overall accuracy. Keywords: Usability, Ambient assisted living, User interaction, Older people, Heuristics analysis

scholarly journals Cuidar, Cotidiano e Ocupações: Um olhar da Terapia Ocupacional sobre cuidadores familiares de idosos / Caring, everyday and occupations: a look at occupational therapy about elderly family caregivers

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-31
Author(s):  
Ayra Caroline Melges Bossi Costa ◽  
Grasielle Silveira Tavares Paulin ◽  
Keila Cristiane Trindade da Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Routine Care ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Daily Life Activities

Este estudo de natureza descritivo exploratória objetivou identificar as áreas de ocupação prejudicadas no cotidiano de cuidadores familiares, analisar a autopercepção do cuidador sobre o seu papel e o cuidado prestado, identificar os sentimentos relacionados ao cuidado e conhecer as razões que o levaram a se tornar cuidador principal. A amostra do estudo foi composta por quatro cuidadores participantes do curso para cuidadores oferecido pela Liga Acadêmica de Gerontologia e Geriatria da Universidade de Brasília (LAGGUnB). Para a coleta de dados utilizou-se como instrumento de pesquisa uma entrevista semiestruturada com perguntas sobre o perfil sócio demográfico do idoso e do cuidador, a autopercepção do cuidador em relação ao cuidado prestado, a rotina diária antes e após se tornar cuidador. A análise dos dados foi feita através da análise de conteúdo e emergiram três categorias: rotina do cuidador, identificando o cuidado prestado e autopercepção do cuidado. Dentre os resultados encontrados notou-se que seis áreas de ocupação estão afetadas. Verificou-se também que não houve uma escolha em se tornar cuidador além disto, sentimentos positivos foram evidenciados ao justificar a escolha em exercer o papel de cuidar.  Conclui-se, portanto, que foram pontuadas mudanças no cotidiano, atividades foram negligenciadas ou diminuídas. Sendo assim, a participação do profissional de Terapia Ocupacional tem sua intervenção com foco na reorganização da rotina, resgatando a realização de atividades significativas.Palavras chaves: Cuidador, Terapia Ocupacional, Envelhecimento.  AbstractThis study had as objectives to identify the impaired occupations in the daily routine of family caregivers, to analyze the caregiver's selfperception about his / her role and care, to identify the feelings related to care and to know the reasons that led him to become a primary caregiver . It is a descriptive and exploratory study with a qualitative approach to the data. The sample consisted of four caregivers participating in the course for caregivers offered by the Academic League of Gerontology and Geriatrics of a public federal university. To collect data, a semi-structured interview was used as a research tool with questions about the socio-demographic profile of the elderly and the caregiver, the self-perception of the caregiver in relation to the care provided, the daily routine before and after becoming a caregiver. The analysis of the data was done through the technique of content analysis and emerged three categories: caregiver routine, care provided and self-perception of care. Among the results found, there were affected occupations: activities of daily living (ADL), instrumental activities of daily living (AIVD), sleep, leisure, social participation and work. It was concluded, therefore, that changes were scored in daily life, activities were neglected or diminished. Thus, the participation of the Occupational Therapy professional has its intervention focused on the reorganization of the routine, rescuing the performance of significant activities. Keywords: Caregivers; Aging; Occupational therapy.

scholarly journals Android Library for Recognition of Activities of Daily Living: Implementation Considerations, Challenges, and Solutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Miguel Pires ◽  
Maria Canavarro Teixeira ◽  
Nuno Pombo ◽  
Nuno M. Garcia ◽  
Francisco Flórez-Revuelta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Assisted Living ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Ambient Assisted Living ◽  
Living Room ◽  
Fusion Data ◽  
Student’S T ◽  
Cleaning Methods

Background:Off-the-shelf-mobile devices have several sensors available onboard that may be used for the recognition of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and the environments where they are performed. This research is focused on the development of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems, using mobile devices for the acquisition of the different types of data related to the physical and physiological conditions of the subjects and the environments. Mobile devices with the Android Operating Systems are the least expensive and exhibit the biggest market while providing a variety of models and onboard sensors.Objective:This paper describes the implementation considerations, challenges and solutions about a framework for the recognition of ADL and the environments, provided as an Android library. The framework is a function of the number of sensors available in different mobile devices and utilizes a variety of activity recognition algorithms to provide a rapid feedback to the user.Methods:The Android library includes data fusion, data processing, features engineering and classification methods. The sensors that may be used are the accelerometer, the gyroscope, the magnetometer, the Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and the microphone. The data processing includes the application of data cleaning methods and the extraction of features, which are used with Deep Neural Networks (DNN) for the classification of ADL and environment. Throughout this work, the limitations of the mobile devices were explored and their effects have been minimized.Results:The implementation of the Android library reported an overall accuracy between 58.02% and 89.15%, depending on the number of sensors used and the number of ADL and environments recognized. Compared with the results available in the literature, the performance of the library reported a mean improvement of 2.93%, and they do not differ at the maximum found in prior work, that based on the Student’s t-test.Conclusion:This study proves that ADL like walking, going upstairs and downstairs, running, watching TV, driving, sleeping and standing activities, and the bedroom, cooking/kitchen, gym, classroom, hall, living room, bar, library and street environments may be recognized with the sensors available in off-the-shelf mobile devices. Finally, these results may act as a preliminary research for the development of a personal digital life coach with a multi-sensor mobile device commonly used daily.

scholarly journals Functional capability and violence situations against the elderly

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 392-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andréa Mathes Faustino ◽  
Lenora Gandolfi ◽  
Leides Barroso de Azevedo Moura
Keyword(s):  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Functional Capability ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Partial Dependence

Objective To verify whether there is a connection between the functional capacity of the elderly and the presence of violent situations in their daily lives. Methods A population-based cross-sectional study developed with 237 elderly individuals. Standard and validated research instruments were used. Results Mean age of 70.25 years (standard deviation of 6.94), 69% were female, 76% were independent in basic activities of daily living and 54% had a partial dependence on at least one instrumental activity. The most prevalent violence was psychological and the relation between being dependent on basic activities of daily living and suffering physical violence was statistically significant. Conclusion When the elderly needs assistance to perform self-care activities, there is a greater chance of exposure to a situation of abuse, such as physical violence.

scholarly journals Mild cognitive impairment in the elderly Relationship between communication and functional capacity

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Iza Gomes da Penha Sobral ◽  
Cláudia Marina Tavares de Araújo ◽  
Marcos Felipe Falcão Sobral
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Mild Cognitive Impairment ◽  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Intermediate Form ◽  
Instrumental Activities

Abstract Mild Cognitive Impairment is characterized as an intermediate form between age-related change and dementia. For the elderly, autonomy and independence are related to the ability to remain active in conducting their social activities and, for this to occur, communication is fundamental in this process. Objective: To assess the association between communication and the abilities of elderly people with mild cognitive impairment to perform instrumental activities of daily living. Methods: A cross-sectional, quantitative, analytical, correlational study was conducted at the Open University of the Third Age (UnATI), a program of the Federal University of Pernambuco. This study included 92 people, comprising 46 elderly with mild cognitive impairment and a caregiver or family member who met the inclusion criteria. The elderly were asked to complete a sociodemographic questionnaire and Lawton-Brody’s Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale. The caregivers were asked to complete the Functional Assessment of Communication Skills. The following variables were studied: social communication skills and instrumental activities of daily living. Data were stored in an Excel® 2007 spreadsheet, and the Pearson correlation test was used for the statistical analysis. Results: There were statistically significant correlations in four domains of social communication: referring to family members by name (p=0.0033); requesting information about people or events (p=0.0355); understanding conversations in a noisy environment (p=0.0448); and understanding what they watch on television or listen to on the radio (p=0.0127). Conclusion: Changes in the communication of elderly people with mild cognitive impairment interfere with their ability to perform instrumental activities autonomously and independently.

scholarly journals FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF OLDER OBESE PATIENTS CANDIDATES FOR BARIATRIC SURGERY

2014 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis PAJECKI ◽  
Marco Aurélio SANTO ◽  
Ana Lumi KANAGI ◽  
Daniel RICCIOPPO ◽  
Roberto de CLEVA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Bariatric Surgery ◽  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Functional Assessment ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Functional Decline ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Obese Patients ◽  
Instrumental Activities

Context Obesity in the elderly is associated with exacerbation of functional decline (dependency), that occurs with aging, because of decreased muscle mass and strength, and increased joint dysfunction. Consequently, there is progressive loss of independence, autonomy, chronic pain and impaired quality of life. The weight loss can bring benefits in all these aspects, especially when accompanied by exercises. Elderly patients with morbid obesity may be submitted to surgical treatment, taking into account that the massive weight loss, eventually caused by bariatric surgery, may exacerbate the loss of muscle mass and nutritional complications that may bring harm to the overall health and quality of life of these patients. The functional assessment of elderly patients, candidates for bariatric surgery and the extent to which surgery can bring benefits to the patients, in the field of functionality, has still to be determined. Objective To describe profile functionality in obese elderly referred to a bariatric surgery program. Methods Patients with age ≥60 and BMI ≥35 underwent comprehensive geriatric assessment that evaluates co morbidities, medication use, ability to perform basic activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living, and the “Timedupandgo” test to evaluate mobility, whose cut-off point was ≤10 seconds. Statistical analysis was performed in order to see if there is a positive correlation of dependency with BMI and age (over or under 65 years). Results Forty subjects have completed evaluation. The mean age was 64.1 years (60-72) and 75% were women. They had an average weight of 121.1 kg (72.7-204) and a mean BMI of 47.2 kg/m2 (35.8-68.9). 16 patients (40%) have shown dependency for activities of daily living, 19 (47,5%) for instrumental activities of daily living and 20 patients (50%) had a “Timedupandgo” test over 10 seconds. Statistical analysis (t-Student, Mann-Whitney, Binary Logistic Regression) has shown positive correlation of dependency in activities of daily living for BMI >49 kg/m2, dependency in instrumental activities of daily living for BMI >46,5 kg/m2, and “Timedupandgo” test greater than 10 seconds for BMI >51 kg/m2 (P<0,05). No dependency difference was observed for patients over or under 65 years age. Conclusions Functional decline is observed in almost half of the morbid obese patients over 60 years old. It is related to increasing BMI (BMI >46,5 kg/m2) but not related to age (60 to 65 years or over 65 years). Functional decline should be considered a co-morbidity in the elderly obese patients and should be assessed before bariatric surgery in this population.

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