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Background Changes in the demographics and respective growth of life expectancy and social needs make informal caregiving crucial component of comprehensive health and social care network, which substantially contributes to the health and well-being of the elderly. The purpose of this paper is to understand the system of care of elderly patients with mental disorders from the perspective of informal...
Paper is focused at connections between human patterns, social care systems and mainstream technologies. Ambient technology should provide higher level of autonomy, security and quality of life. This means usability of those services easy and effective to use, comfortable, and easy to operate with. Important point of assistive support based on mainstream systems are features of design for all. Services...
In collaboration with NGOs dedicated to supported employment programs, a novel context-aware task prompting system (CATPro) is presented in this research to increase work and life independence for cognitive-impaired patients such as people with traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's disease. Preliminary results show the prototype is very...
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