Technical development of a holistic platform to monitor people with dementia and measure their well-being
N. Morresi, G. M. Revel, S. Casaccia
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AbstractIn recent years, an extensive bulk of technology was developed for helping PwD and its caregivers. Low-cost sensors, wearable devices, electronic health records and artificial intelligence (AI) spread in the healthcare system to gather and analyze data collected from PwD to get insights into his/her physical condition, behavior at home and lifestyle (Bevilacqua et al., 2020). Assistive technologies can improve the quality of life of seniors and support caregivers to detect and monitor the onset and progression of diseases. Future developments should apply a holistic approach that analyses multiple aspects of the quality of life of PwD using devices such as GPS trackers, tablet/mobile applications, lifestyle monitoring systems, and sleep monitoring sensors (Wójcik et al., 2021). Currently, there are many devices that work alone and focus on one or two needs of the PwD (Casaccia et al., 2019; Aloulou et al., 2013).This is the premise of the European HAAL project, (AAL-2020-7-229-CP), which aims at integrating a set of devices developed in past projects, into a system able to target and evolve with PwD through the whole course of the disease. A milestone of HAAL is that the combination of two or more devices, specifically chosen to monitor the most important aspects of the PwD's life, will provide added value to the platform and moreover, the combination of multiple heterogeneous collected data from the devices can give detailed insights into PwD’s life. This work describes the preliminary sensor network integrated into the HAAL platform, to support the different stages of dementia.Keywords: wellbeing, sensor network, behaviour monitoring
N. Morresi, G. M. Revel, S. Casaccia (2022). Technical development of a holistic platform to monitor people with dementia and measure their well-being. Gerontechnology, 21(s),3-3
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2022.21.s.587.3.sp4