Ambient Intelligence for Eldercare – the Nuts and Bolts

2011 ◽  
pp. 392-423 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jit Biswas ◽  
Andrei Tolstikov ◽  
Aung-Phyo-Wai Aung ◽  
Victor Siang-Fook Foo ◽  
Weimin Huang
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Ambient Intelligence ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
The World ◽  
Recognition Systems ◽  
Elderly Living

This chapter provides examples of sensor data acquisition, processing and activity recognition systems that are necessary for ambient intelligence specifically applied to home care for the elderly. We envision a future where software and algorithms will be tailored and personalized towards the recognition and assistance of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) of the elderly. In order to meet the needs of the elderly living alone, researchers all around the world are looking to the field of Ambient Intelligence or AmI (see http://www.ambientintelligence.org).

The economics of home care for the elderly

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-103
Author(s):  
C. Bielawska ◽  
G.S. Rai
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care For The Elderly

scholarly journals Contextual income and incidence of disability

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Ana Lúcia Danielewicz ◽  
Eleonora D’Orsi ◽  
Antonio Fernando Boing
Keyword(s):  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Lower Income ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Elderly Individuals ◽  
Instrumental Activities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Individual Variables ◽  
Elderly Living

OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the association between contextual income and the incidence of disability in basic and instrumental activities of daily living. METHODS: This is a cohort study, with sample of elderly individuals (n = 1,196) residing in Florianópolis, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. The incidence of disabilities was evaluated using reports of difficulty or inability to perform six basic activities of daily living and nine instrumental activities of daily living after four years. Contextual income was obtained from the 2010 Census. We conducted multilevel logistic regression analyses with adjustment models for individual variables. RESULTS: The incidence of disability in basic activities of daily living was 15.8% (95%CI 13.8–17.9) and in instrumental activities of daily living incidence was 13.4% (95%CI 11.6–15.5). We observed significant association between contextual income and incidence of disability in basic activities of daily living. Having as reference the elderly living in the lower income tercile, those who lived in the intermediary terciles and in that of highest income had 37% (95%CI 0.41–0.96) and 21% (95%CI 0.52–1.19) lower chances of developing disability, respectively. For the incidence of disability in instrumental activities of daily living we observed no statistically significant associations. CONCLUSIONS: Contextual income influences the development of disability in basic activities of daily living in the elderly and should be the subject of actions to reduce socioeconomic inequalities and promote longevity with independence.

scholarly journals Experiences with the privatization of home care: evidence from Denmark

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Fersch ◽  
Per H Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Financial Responsibility ◽  
Care For The Elderly

Processes of privatization in home care for the elderly in Denmark have primarily taken the form of outsourcing public-care provisions. The content and quality of services have in principle remained the same, but the providers of services have changed. The welfare state has continued to bear the major responsibility for the provision of elderly care, while outsourcing has allowed clients to choose between public and private providers of care. The major aim of outsourcing has been to empower the frail elderly by providing them with exit-opportunities through a construction of this group as consumers of welfare-state provisions. The central government in Denmark has produced the public-service reform, but the municipalities bear the administrative and financial responsibility for care for the elderly. Further, national policymakers have decided that local authorities (municipalities) must provide to individuals requiring care the opportunities to choose. With this background in mind, this article analyses how national, top-down ideas and the ‘politics of choice' have created tensions locally in the form of municipal resistance and blockages. The article draws on case studies in two Danish municipalities, whereby central politicians and administrative leaders have been interviewed. We have identified four areas of tensions: 1) those between liberal and libertarian ideas and values versus local political orientations and practices; 2) new tensions and lines of demarcation among political actors, where old political conflicts no longer holds; 3) tensions between promises and actual delivery, due to insufficient control of private contractors; and 4) those between market principles and the professional ethics of care providers.

scholarly journals The Study of Senile Symptoms and Home Care on the Elderly Living in Korea

1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Eri Kim ◽  
Keiko Takeo ◽  
Keiko Kimura
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Elderly Living

scholarly journals Reasoning support for risk prediction and prevention in independent living

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 361-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. MILEO ◽  
D. MERICO ◽  
R. BISIANI
Keyword(s):  
Independent Living ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Population Monitoring ◽  
Expressive Power ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Prediction And Prevention ◽  
Correlation Rules

AbstractIn recent years there has been a growing interest in solutions for the delivery of clinical care for the elderly because of the large increase in aging population. Monitoring a patient in his home environment is necessary to ensure continuity of care in home settings, but, to be useful, this activity must not be too invasive for patients and a burden for caregivers. We prototyped a system called Secure and INDependent lIving (SINDI), focused on (a) collecting a limited amount of data about the person and the environment through Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), and (b) inferring from these data enough information to support caregivers in understanding patients' well-being and in predicting possible evolutions of their health. Our hierarchical logic-based model of health combines data from different sources, sensor data, tests results, common-sense knowledge and patient's clinical profile at the lower level, and correlation rules between health conditions across upper levels. The logical formalization and the reasoning process are based on Answer Set Programming. The expressive power of this logic programming paradigm makes it possible to reason about health evolution even when the available information is incomplete and potentially incoherent, while declarativity simplifies rules specification by caregivers and allows automatic encoding of knowledge. This paper describes how these issues have been targeted in the application scenario of the SINDI system.

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