An Ambient Assisted Living Approach in Designing Domiciliary Services Combined With Innovative Technologies for Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease

Abstract

The experience described in this article demonstrated that AAL technologies are feasible and effective nowadays and can be actively used in assisting patients with AD in their homes. The extensive involvement of caregivers in the experimentation allowed to assess that there is, through the use of the technological system, a proven improvement in care performance and efficiency of care provision by both formal and informal caregivers and consequently an increase in the quality of life of patients, their relatives, and their caregivers.

Usability and acceptability of technology for community-dwelling older adults with mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a systematic literature review

“…Domain 1 presents six papers on technology either for locating persons 32 – 34 or for supporting navigation, 35 , 36 or on how to involve users in the product design of devices for location and navigation. 37 Domain 2 presents 10 papers on technologies for enhancing safe living, with five studies focused on monitoring systems, 19 , 29 , 38 – 40 including two papers particularly describing technology for nighttime security. 38 , 39 Further, one paper investigated “stand-alone” technologies to enhance safe living, 40 and one study investigated user requirements prior to the development of a safety wristband.…”

“… 17 “Usability” is defined as “the extent to which a product can be used by specified users to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction in a specified context of use,” 18 while “acceptability” is defined as “the degree of primary users’ predisposition to carry out daily activities using the intended device” (p. 73). 19 Arthur (2009, p. 29) defined acceptability for technology as being a “means to fulfill a human purpose,” 20 and stated that technology may be a method, process, or device.…”

On the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease from multimodal signals: A survey

“…Other researchers have focused their work into the development of services or improvements on smart homes to better assist and help already diagnosed people with AD or some other dementia [244,264].…”

“Interconnection” APP: Proposal of Interaction with a Virtual Agent, Animations and Augmented Reality an Easy Way to Learn the Usage of Sensors in Smart Cities

“…By giving the users an opportunity to understand the environment that surrounds us as an interactive and dynamic way in multimodal interfaces, creating exhaustive user studies to determinate how to implement this technology in relevant scenarios [21] showing its viability to support complex tasks interaction [22]. Proposing to define how an application needs the interaction before its development, this present research is based on the concept of Ambient and Active and Assisted Living (AAL) program, where the organizations need to share their common information coming from different sources and helping provide better assistance [23].…”