A Review of Assistive Technologies for Activities of Daily Living of Elderly

Thakur, Rajeev

doi:10.52305/sacy9980

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“…Other IADL categories (finance, leisure, mobility, home, or food) could not find enough attention. This finding is in line with the recent literature about typical problems related with aging [101]. Among these problems, having problems with self-sufficiency, tending to accidents at home, having multiple health problems, increasing neurological disorders, feeling loneliness and in relation with this, increasing depression status are directly related to communication and health activities that have to be solved primarily for older adults.…”

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“…One of the main key findings of our review is about specifying the technologies used in the studies with respect to different IADLs. Although there are many types of technologies and naming for similar technologies in the literature, we categorized the technologies and their types in line with previous similar reviews [16,25,61,101].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Scoping Review of Technological Solutions for Community Dwelling Older Adults and Implications for Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

Arioz,

Smrke,

Plohl

et al. 2024

Aging and disease

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Aging in place is not without its challenges, with physical, psychological, social, and economic burdens on caregivers and seniors. To address these challenges and promote active aging, technological advancements offer a range of digital tools, applications, and devices, enabling community dwelling older adults to live independently and safely. Despite these opportunities, the acceptance of technology among the older adults remains low, often due to a mismatch between technology development and the actual needs and goals of seniors. The aim of this review is to identify recent technological solutions that monitor the health and well-being of aging adults, particularly within the context of instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). A scoping review identified 52 studies that meet specific inclusion criteria. The outcomes were classified based on social connectedness, autonomy, mental health, physical health, and safety. Our review revealed that a predominant majority (82%) of the studies were observational in design and primarily focused on health-related IADLs (59%) and communication-related IADLs (31%). Additionally, the study highlighted the crucial role of involving older adults in study design processes, with only 8 out of the 52 studies incorporating this approach. Our review also established the interview method as the most favoured technology evaluation tool for older adults' studies. The metrics of 'usability' and 'acceptance' emerged as the most frequently employed measures for technology assessment. This study contributes to the existing literature by shedding light on the implications of technological solutions for community dwelling older adults, emphasizing the types of technologies employed and their evaluation results.

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Section: Discussion On Iadls Categories Of the Studiessupporting

confidence: 90%

Section: Discussion On Technologies/software Tools Of the Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scoping Review of Technological Solutions for Community Dwelling Older Adults and Implications for Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

Arioz,

Smrke,

Plohl

et al. 2024

Aging and disease

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“…Analysis of the complex activity of eating lunch in terms of joint point characteristics [31]. (7,3), (8,3), (6,4), (7,4), (8,4) or (10,3), (11,3), (12,3), (10,4), (11,4), and (12,4) As can be seen from Table 2, where α = 64, there are 64 different ways by which this complex activity can be performed. However, the value of γ = 60 means that 60 out of these 64 ways would not lead to the end goal or the desired outcome.…”

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“…There can be various kinds of activities that a user performs in different environments with different spatial configurations. Activities that are crucial to one's sustenance and are performed within the confines of one's living space, e.g., personal hygiene, dressing, eating, maintaining continence, and mobility, are collectively termed as activities of daily living (ADLs) [6]. Based on the interaction patterns of the subject and object during activities, there are five broad characteristics of ADLs-(1) sequential, (2) concurrent, (3) interleaved, (4) false start, and (5) social interactions [5].…”

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An Ambient Intelligence-Based Human Behavior Monitoring Framework for Ubiquitous Environments

Thakur

Han

2021

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This framework for human behavior monitoring aims to take a holistic approach to study, track, monitor, and analyze human behavior during activities of daily living (ADLs). The framework consists of two novel functionalities. First, it can perform the semantic analysis of user interactions on the diverse contextual parameters during ADLs to identify a list of distinct behavioral patterns associated with different complex activities. Second, it consists of an intelligent decision-making algorithm that can analyze these behavioral patterns and their relationships with the dynamic contextual and spatial features of the environment to detect any anomalies in user behavior that could constitute an emergency. These functionalities of this interdisciplinary framework were developed by integrating the latest advancements and technologies in human–computer interaction, machine learning, Internet of Things, pattern recognition, and ubiquitous computing. The framework was evaluated on a dataset of ADLs, and the performance accuracies of these two functionalities were found to be 76.71% and 83.87%, respectively. The presented and discussed results uphold the relevance and immense potential of this framework to contribute towards improving the quality of life and assisted living of the aging population in the future of Internet of Things (IoT)-based ubiquitous living environments, e.g., smart homes.

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“…Assistive technologies (ATs) are a research field that is transforming the lives of impaired people [1]. These technologies are intended to provide support and assistance to people with a variety of disabilities, including mobility [2,3], vision [4] and hearing impairments [5], and cognitive disabilities [6].…”

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Experimental Evaluation of EMKEY: An Assistive Technology for People with Upper Limb Disabilities

Zapata

Valencia-Aragón

Ramos-Galarza

2023

Sensors

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Assistive technology can help people with disabilities to use computers more effectively and can enable them to access the same information and resources as people without disabilities. To obtain more insight into the factors that can bring about the design of an Emulator of Mouse and Keyboard (EMKEY) to higher levels of user satisfaction, an experimental study was conducted in order to analyse its effectiveness and efficiency. The experimental study involved 27 participants (Mage = 20.81, SD = 1.14) who performed three experimental games under different conditions (using the mouse and using EMKEY with head movements and voice commands). According to the results, the use of EMKEY allowed for the successful performance of tasks such as matching stimuli (F (2, 78) = 2.39, p = 0.10, η2 = 0.06). However, the execution times of a task were found to be higher when using the emulator to drag an object on the screen (t (52, 1) = −18.45, p ≤ 0.001, d = 9.60). These results indicate the effectiveness of technological development for people with upper limb disabilities; however, there is room for improvement in terms of efficiency. The findings are discussed in relation to previous research and are based on future studies aimed at improving the operation of the EMKEY emulator.

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A Review of Assistive Technologies for Activities of Daily Living of Elderly

Cited by 17 publications

References 35 publications

Scoping Review of Technological Solutions for Community Dwelling Older Adults and Implications for Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

Scoping Review of Technological Solutions for Community Dwelling Older Adults and Implications for Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

An Ambient Intelligence-Based Human Behavior Monitoring Framework for Ubiquitous Environments

Experimental Evaluation of EMKEY: An Assistive Technology for People with Upper Limb Disabilities

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