Towards a practical framework for managing the risks of selecting technology to support independent living

Monk, Andrew; Hone, Kate; Lines, Lorna; Dowdall, Alan; Baxter, Greg; Blythe, Mark; Wright, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2005.10.003

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“…in Europe) are not used to modern IT systems and even worse, they are afraid of using them [7], [8]. Here big cultural differences become apparent.…”

Section: Challenges Of Future Interfaces In Assisted Livingmentioning

confidence: 94%

Ambient Intelligence in Assisted Living: Enable Elderly People to Handle Future Interfaces

Kleinberger

Becker

Ras

et al. 2007

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

268

136

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Abstract. Ambient Assisted Living is currently one of the important research and development areas, where accessibility, usability and learning plays a major role and where future interfaces are an important concern for applied engineering. The general goal of ambient assisted living solutions is to apply ambient intelligence technology to enable people with specific demands, e.g. handicapped or elderly, to live in their preferred environment longer. Due to the high potential of emergencies, a sound emergency assistance is required, for instance assisting elderly people with comprehensive ambient assisted living solutions sets high demands on the overall system quality and consequently on software and system engineering -user acceptance and support by various userinterfaces is an absolute necessity. In this article, we present an Assisted Living Laboratory that is used to train elderly people to handle modern interfaces for Assisted Living and evaluate the usability and suitability of these interfaces in specific situations, e.g., emergency cases.

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“…in Europe) are not used to modern IT systems and even worse, they are afraid of using them [7], [8]. Here big cultural differences become apparent.…”

Section: Challenges Of Future Interfaces In Assisted Livingmentioning

confidence: 94%

Ambient Intelligence in Assisted Living: Enable Elderly People to Handle Future Interfaces

Kleinberger

Becker

Ras

et al. 2007

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

268

136

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“…Evaluating risk comprehensively Titterton (2005) argued that in professional practice, a client's risk status, or risk estimation and risk evaluation is based on a prediction of the likelihood of the risk occurring and its consequences (Carson & Bain, 2008;Monk et al, 2006;Titterton, 2005). In this article, we identified the ways in which these two criteria (likelihood and consequences) were refined into seven criteria (see Figure 1).…”

Section: Defining Risk As a Negative Phenomenonmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk: ‘I know it when I see it’: how health and social practitioners defined and evaluated living at risk among community-dwelling older adults

MacLeod¹,

Stadnyk

2015

Health, Risk & Society

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Older adults are increasingly choosing to stay and age in their home or other place where they normally live, even when a change in their health reduces their ability to live independently creating concerns about their safety. In this context, community practitioners need to be aware of risk assessment and management strategies as they support their clients' choices when safety is a concern. This requires an understanding of living at risk and an ability to evaluate the client's risk status. This article is based on a qualitative research study in which we interviewed 12 Canadian community practitioners in 2012 and explored how they defined, perceived, assessed and managed risk and how they balanced their client's safety and autonomy. We used a grounded theory methodology to collect and analyse the data. We found that participants tended to define living at risk as a judgement about a client's impairment within an environment that can cause an event that has an increased potential for a negative consequence. We also found practitioners evaluated the client's risk by considering seven factors: the client's capacity and their support, the occurrence, imminency and frequency of the event, the severity of the consequences, and the number of other events co-occurring. In this article, we show that practitioners are comprehensive in their evaluation of the client's risk. Although practitioners saw risk and living at risk from a negative perspective, they were able to acknowledge that it could coexist along a continuum from safe to unsafe.

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“…21 report on the impact of sensory loss and how the fear of falling jeopardizes an individual's confidence; whilst loss of social contact/social isolation/loneliness are reported by a number of researchers. [22][23][24][25][26][27] Furthermore, loss of skills such as driving skills have also been identified. 28 However, this is discussed predominantly in the literature about skill development, promoting confidence.…”

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The meaning of confidence for older people living with frailty: a qualitative systematic review

Underwood

Burrows

Gegg

et al. 2017

JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports

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Towards a practical framework for managing the risks of selecting technology to support independent living

Cited by 18 publications

References 9 publications

Ambient Intelligence in Assisted Living: Enable Elderly People to Handle Future Interfaces

Ambient Intelligence in Assisted Living: Enable Elderly People to Handle Future Interfaces

Risk: ‘I know it when I see it’: how health and social practitioners defined and evaluated living at risk among community-dwelling older adults

The meaning of confidence for older people living with frailty: a qualitative systematic review

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