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The number of elderly people over 60-year old is expected to reach 2 billion by 2050. With age people experience cognitive decline. While exercises are known to help, one of the age-associated issues is non-adherence. With the increasing adoption of technology by elderly, mobile devices become a good channel to deliver a persuasive solution. In this paper, we discuss the design and evaluation of Adherence...
This research aims to map out possible pedagogical strategies for improve the social relations of elderly in distance courses. Around the world are increasing the number of the old-aged people, at the same time the interest in courses of continued education. The distance education is the one of viable ways for the elders, because allow an increase of best quality of life based in their interests and...
Because of their familiarity with various sites and members, elderly people behave differently in the dining hall, including when they choose their seats. More than half elderly tend to choose the same seats, and prefer to use personal items to occupy the seats. They also move the chairs or even communicate with others to make sure the people they know sit beside them. However, for some elderly people,...
The aging process in human being will eventually develop some degree of decline in cognitive capacity and show a variety of symptoms associated with it such as forgetfulness. Forgetfulness might lead to frustration as it hinders elderly from carrying out their daily life activities. Living a healthy aging life, the spiritual aspect is considered essential by older adults. Muslims believe that their...
The scenario of rapid development in Information Communication Technology and the increasing population of older people in this twenty-first century has urged more Human Computer Interaction researchers to endeavor study pertaining how technology can assist older people in their lives. Older adult generally experience some significant changes as they grow older including physical, cognitive and behavioral...
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...
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