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Leveraging Unsupervised Machine Learning to Discover Patterns in Linguistic Health Summaries for Eldercare.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
The Center for Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology, at University of Missouri, has researched the use of smart, unobtrusive sensors for older adult residents' health monitoring and alerting in aging-in-place communities for many years. Sensors pl...

Predicting Falls Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Demonstration of Applied Machine Learning.

Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN
Data science skills are increasingly needed by informatics nurses and nurse scientists, but techniques such as machine learning can be daunting for those with clinical, rather than computer science or technical, backgrounds. With the increasing quant...

Robotic Pet Use Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
OBJECTIVE: The primary purpose of this study was to explore the efficacy of robotic pets in alleviating loneliness for older adults.

The Ethics of Socially Assistive Robots in Aged Care. A Focus Group Study With Older Adults in Flanders, Belgium.

The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
OBJECTIVES: Socially assistive robots (SARs) need to be studied from older adults' perspective, given their predicted future ubiquity in aged-care settings. Current ethical discourses on SARs in aged care are uninformed by primary stakeholders' ethic...

Technology in geriatrics.

Age and ageing
Recently, the interest of industry, government agencies and healthcare professionals in technology for aging people has increased. The challenge is whether technology may play a role in enhancing independence and quality of life and in reducing indiv...

A Robotic Solution for Assisting People with MCI at Home: Preliminary Tests of the ENRICHME System.

Studies in health technology and informatics
Robots have the potential to support care and independence of older adults. The ENRICHME project is developing an integrated system composed of a robot, sensors and a networking care platform, aiming at assisting older adults with MCI in their home e...