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In Germany, a growing trend can be monitored towards increasing life expectancy, low fertility rates, increasing long-term care rates, a demographic shift in the age structure (demographic challenges). Furthermore, two-third of the dependent people prefer growing old at home instead of living in a retirement home (sociocultural challenges). These trends can also be observed at the European level....
Wearable devices like activity tracker, measuring motion and steps, enable users to monitor their behaviour and might support a healthier lifestyle. These wearables might also motivate elderly to be active and live healthy. Unfortunately they are mostly designed for younger users and it is unclear if they are usable by older adults. In order to answer this research question a four week lasting empirical...
Community- and home-based care services for the elderly are carried out in many communities of cities in China, meanwhile, these initial small-scale pilots have been gradually extended, and this has become the trend of community development in the next few years. However, community and home care services for elderly people are still facing problems such as inadequate coverage and low-service levels...
The demographic change in European societies has lead to increased attention for the needs of elderly people. Techniques and tools to support their independent living at home are of particular interest. In this article we focus on the aspect of daily information management for this user group. We describe a system which simplifies access to and the management of printed documents. It enables the use...
Quality of life a of population represents a wide range of opportunities for personalized technologies supporting all areas of information and communication technologies (ICT), mainly wireless communications. In fact, most national policies are considering these communication and information systems as the basic elements for the emerging healthcare and social needs currently under serious economic...
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