Evaluating technical viability of a loneliness detector system for older adults from rural areas
M. Jesús-Azabal, L. Mariano, J. Galán-Jiménez, J. García-Alonso
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AbstractDuring the last years, many researches have studied how solitude impact on health (Steptoe, A. et al., 2004), identifying loneliness among elders as a high priority problem. This issue is especially apparent in rural areas where a large proportion of the population are older adults who live alone. However, this reality is hard to be objectively measured. Resources as scales and questionnaires (Ventura-León, J. et al, 2020) are usually applied to detect unwanted loneliness. Nevertheless, these approaches are not always able to reflect the reality and the whole context of solitude (Nzabona, A. et al., 2016). Therefore, the loneliness problems require a qualitative perspective, finding on technology a substantial resource to measure it. In the present work, a distributed sustainable architecture for studying loneliness is introduced, defining the components and evaluating its technical viability.Keywords: solitude, distributed architecture, sustainability, wearables
M. Jesús-Azabal, L. Mariano, J. Galán-Jiménez, J. García-Alonso (2022). Evaluating technical viability of a loneliness detector system for older adults from rural areas. Gerontechnology, 21(s),1-1
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2022.21.s.614.opp4