Ambient Assisted Living

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Costa, A., Rincon, J. A., Carrascosa, C., Novais, P., & Julian, V. (2018). Activities suggestion based on emotions in AAL environments. Artificial intelligence in medicine, 86, 9-19.
The elderly population receives services and support systems in the form of home health agencies, hospices, residential care communities, nursing homes, and adult day service centers. All these systems and support systems have doctors, nurses, caregivers, and even family members who provide assistance to the elderly to prevent them from getting complicated medical conditions. However, there are major issues with assisted care, especially for a country like the USA which is expected to have at least 27 million people receiving long-term assistance and care by 2050. …show more content…
They’ve suggested Ambient-Assisted Living (AAL) as the optional support system for the elderly. AAL refers to technological products that can solve some of the problems the elderly may be facing. It is based on Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems that can improve the everyday lives of the elderly, by applying perception and action features into their households through devices that have information that is captured by sensors systems located in these homes. The technological systems that can be implemented need to be aligned with the environment, for example, by considering direct human interaction. They’ve proposed the implementation and testing of ludic events schedulers amongst the elderly in retirement homes to ensure that they have an active aging process, through the daily proposal of specific activities they can engage in, and which they like. Including emotions and the psychological state of elderly people who’re living at senior centers can provide greater accuracy, according to the study on the simulation. Emotional propagations amongst the stakeholders of senior centers, especially the elderly and their monitors can provide sufficient understanding of the human behavior that can be used for producing devices to assist with ambient living. This paper goes to great depths to demonstrate that there is a possibility for assisted living …show more content…
There are adults with IDD who live at assisted living centers and in group homes, who, because of their nature, take up the physical activity and dietary characteristics of the general population that make increase the rates of them being overweight or obese. This calls for the intervention of caregivers, who can ensure that they do not become obese, thereby preventing the effects of being excessively overweight from happening among
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