AIMC Topic: Independent Living

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Unobtrusive Activity Recognition of Elderly People Living Alone Using Anonymous Binary Sensors and DCNN.

IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Elderly population (over the age of 60) is predicted to be 1.2 billion by 2025. Most of the elderly people would like to stay alone in their own house due to the high eldercare cost and privacy invasion. Unobtrusive activity recognition is the most p...

A robotic shower system : Acceptance and ethical issues.

Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
BACKGROUND: Being able to maintain personal hygiene plays a crucial role for independent living in old age or when suffering from disabilities. Within the European project ICT Supported Bath Robots (I‑SUPPORT) an intelligent robotic shower system is ...

Inclusion of service robots in the daily lives of frail older users: A step-by-step definition procedure on users' requirements.

Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
The implications for the inclusion of robots in the daily lives of frail older adults, especially in relation to these population needs, have not been extensively studied. The "Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living" (SRS) project ha...

Stakeholders' Perceptions Sought to Inform the Development of a Low-Cost Mobile Robot for Older Adults: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Clinical nursing research
Creative solutions are needed to support community-dwelling older adults residing in a variety of settings including their house, apartment, or Supportive Apartment Living (SAL) to promote independence and reduce the risk of nursing home replacement....

A multi-perspective evaluation of a service robot for seniors: the voice of different stakeholders.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
PURPOSE: The potential of service robots for seniors is given increasing attention as the ageing population in Western countries will continue to grow as well as the demand for home care. In order to capture the experience of living with a robot at h...

Evaluation of a companion robot based on field tests with single older adults in their homes.

Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA
The growing number of older adults places insurmountable load on family members and professional caregivers. Assistive technology with the aid of robots can present a possible solution. The goal of this article was to test a companion robot supportin...

Correlates of sleep quality in midlife and beyond: a machine learning analysis.

Sleep medicine
OBJECTIVES: In older adults, traditional metrics derived from polysomnography (PSG) are not well correlated with subjective sleep quality. Little is known about whether the association between PSG and subjective sleep quality changes with age, or whe...

Occupational Therapy Students' Perceptions of the Role of Robots in the Care for Older People Living in the Community.

Occupational therapy international
BACKGROUND: The question arises how recent developments in robotics can contribute to the care for older people. The study is part of the EU-funded ENRICHME project.

Living with the animals: animal or robotic companions for the elderly in smart homes?

Journal of medical ethics
Although the use of pet robots in senior living facilities and day-care centres, particularly for individuals suffering from dementia, has been intensively researched, the question of introducing pet robots into domestic settings has been relatively ...