Health Smart Home - Towards an assistant tool for automatic assessment of the dependence of elders

In order to help elders living alone to age in place independently and safely, it can be useful to have an assistant tool that can automatically assess their dependence and issue an alert if there is any loss of autonomy. The dependence can be assessed by the degree of performance, by the elders, of...

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Hauptverfasser:	Xuan Hoa Binh Le, Di Mascolo, M., Gouin, A., Noury, N.
Format:	Tagungsbericht
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Activities of Daily Living Aged Aged, 80 and over Aging Automatic Diseases Engineering Sciences Female Health Services for the Aged Homes for the Aged Hospitals Humans Infrared sensors Intelligent actuators Intelligent sensors Magnetic sensors Male Monitoring Monitoring, Ambulatory Performance loss Personal Autonomy Smart homes
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Zusammenfassung:	In order to help elders living alone to age in place independently and safely, it can be useful to have an assistant tool that can automatically assess their dependence and issue an alert if there is any loss of autonomy. The dependence can be assessed by the degree of performance, by the elders, of activities of daily living. This article presents an approach enabling the activity recognition for an elder living alone in a Health Smart Home equipped with noninvasive sensors.
ISSN:	1094-687X 1557-170X 1558-4615
DOI:	10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353161