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This article describes a developed interactive environment (based on "dashboards") allowing the geriatricians and caregivers to access, analyze and precisely annotate or label specific granular cases of interest in a variety of heterogeneous data collected to identify behaviour changes through Smart City IoT and Open Data infrastructure. The overall goal is to detect and contextualize as...
The aim was to assess the frequency, risk factors and consequences of falls in elderly and the rate of reporting their occurrence to health professionals. Materials and methods: This is a cross-sectional study of 182 patients admitted to the National Institute of Geriatrics and Gerontology during December 2014–April 2015. Data was obtained from the medical records and by asking the patients to fill...
Objective: To outline the research hotspots of geriatric nurse by PubMed. Methods: With MS Excel, SPSS, Cytoscape software, we took MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) word frequency analysis, clustering analysis, co-word network graph of PubMed papers. Results: It shows that the current geriatric nurse research hotspots had focus on "Attitude of Health Personnel, Nurse Practitioners, Geriatric Nursing,...
The older adult (age ≥65 years) population is a large and rapidly growing segment of the US population. EMS must prepare for a significant increase in the number of older adult patients requesting assistance. By 2030, EMS will likely transport 12 million older adults per year, and older adults will comprise approximately half of the EMS call volume. Here we discuss the changes with normal aging, assessment...
The ARPEGE project proposes a set of technological tools to assess frailty of elderly in their usual environment, typically their home, with reference to Fried's scale of physical frailty. It consists of a set of measurement devices wirelessly connected to a tablet PC which allows easy manipulation by social caregivers and the production of reports either at the end of the investigation, or later...
While there has been wide uptake of the Nintendo Wii Fit as a therapy tool in hospital and aged care settings there is a lack of evidence regarding the effectiveness and safety of this approach when used with older people. This pilot study compared the effect of a physiotherapist providing activities from the Wii Fit with conventional therapy on mobility, activities of daily living and safety. The...
With its first baby boomers entering retirement age, China is at rapid ageing phase. In recent years, more and more metropolitan young-old retirees (from 55 to 70) choose to live out their lives in rural areas as seasonal migrants. The objective of this study was to identify characteristics of seasonal migration, modes of formation and development of rural retirement destinations and impacts of such...
This paper describes ongoing work in analyzing sensor data logged in the homes of seniors. An estimation of relative energy expenditure is computed using motion density from passive infrared motion sensors mounted in the environment. We introduce a new algorithm for detecting visitors in the home using motion sensor data and a set of fuzzy rules. The visitor algorithm, as well as a previous algorithm...
We have investigated functional connectivity of the default mode network (DMN) in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) using resting state fMRI at 3T. Images from young and elderly controls, and patients with AD were processed using spatial independent component analysis to identify the DMN. Functional connectivity was quantified using integration and indices derived from graph theory. Four DMN...
Populations of healthy older individuals are often highly heterogeneous, as prevalence of various underlying pathologies increases with age. Finding coherent groups of normal older adults may allow to identify subpopulations that are at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). In this paper, we propose an approach that utilizes longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data to obtain natural...
In population structure of aging society, the life expectancy of national average is extended because medical treatment is improved. The rate of people of chronic disease is gradually increased year by year and caused by lifestyle related disease and unbalanced food. Moreover, it is dropping. Improvements of the daily life and the treatment of diet of the elderly, the chronic patient and the special...
One of the most important clinical problems in caring for elderly patients is treatment of pressure ulcers. One component of normal wound healing is the generation of an inflammatory reaction, which is characterized by the sequential infiltration of neutrophils, macrophages and lymphocytes. In aged C57BL/6 mice, wound healing is relatively inefficient. We examined the effects of monocytes lineage...
Due to home accidents occurring within the world's aging population, especially with the accidental stumble and falling of the elderly, mortality and morbidity from falls have become one of the major issues in the health care system. In most developed countries, most frequent stumbles and falls occur in and around the community or at home. A number of wearable devices integrated with accelerometers...
Classification of voice aging has many applications in health care and geriatrics. This work focuses on finding the most relevant parameters to classify voice aging. The most significant parameters extracted from the glottal signal are chosen to identify the voice aging process of men and women. After analyzing their statistics, the chosen parameters are used as entries to a neural network to classify...
Deep design outlined in the paper is a new approach, where not only tasks, immediate emotions or habits and behaviours are considered. Deep design aims to identify sources of emotionally rich and strong experiences and feelings in order to augment them subsequently by means of smart technology. The most intrinsical needs of users, their deep needs, should be revealed and reflected in the process....
Changing demographics in the western society require the provision of resources to enable independent living for the aging population. This includes guiding research and development into technologies and interventions that would assist the elderly to live safely and independently in their own homes. It is also essential that policy regarding privacy and security is addressed, both on a regional, national...
The aging population is an unavoidable development trend over the world. Our country has become a member of the countries of aging population. In recent years, the governable income for the elder has been increased constantly and on that point, those persons will have more leisure time and the better physical situations, which all simulate the rising of the demands of the elder tourism. Therefore,...
Supporting ageing in place and staying at home, delaying institutionalization, lightening the caregivers' burden, improving the elderly quality of life are as many expectations that TeleHealthCare aims at coming up to. This paper proposes a method for Telemonitoring to detect abnormal changes in behavior which may lead to an early entrance in dependency. This method allows to detect and quantify a...
This study aims to evaluate a variety of existing and novel fall detection algorithms, for a waist mounted accelerometer based system. Algorithms were tested against a comprehensive data-set recorded from 10 young healthy subjects performing 240 falls and 120 activities of daily living and 10 elderly healthy subjects performing 240 scripted and 52.4 hours of continuous unscripted normal activities...
The graying of the population and uncontrolled healthcare costs are posing a great challenge for science and society. Movement of the focus of healthcare out of the acute high cost hospital setting is required in order to meet this challenge. This can be achieved through development of new models of healthcare that are based on early assessment and intervention and in the community. Judicious use...
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