Ambient Assisted Living and ageing: Preliminary results of RITA project

Abstract

The ageing of population is a social phenomenon that most of worldwide countries are facing. They are, and will be even more in the future, indeed trying to find solutions for improving quality of life of their elderly citizens. The project RITA wants to demonstrate that an update of the current socio-medical services with an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) approach could improve the service efficiency and the quality of life of both elderly and caregiver. This paper presents the preliminary results obtained in RITA.

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“…The highest percentage is registered for the difficulty of walking and/or going upstairs or downstairs. According to the values shown in [3], the 81% of women and 78% of men follow a medical therapy and even need medical examination once or twice a month. In addition, elderly people frequently need medical assistance and, in general, they need to be hospitalized more than non-elderly people.…”

“…It is also important to know that most of elderly people (61% of men and 71% of women) live alone or with his/her old partner [3]. The ones who live alone generally have more accidents [4].…”

“…In fact, 30% of them have one fall per year and the 50% of them even suffer more than one fall. Elderly people generally are in touch with their family members via telephone calls and their families usually visit them once or twice per week [3]. The use of mobile phones by elderly people is still low.…”

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