Sustainable AAL technology for supporting seniors in independent living shared homes
P. P. Morita, D. Istrate, V. Zalc, P. Rumeau, N. Vigouroux, E. Campo
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AbstractAffordable and sustainable housing for seniors is a major project in Canada and France alike (Bresson & Labit, 2020). While retirement homes and nursing homes have been developed to address this need and provide seniors with the necessary support as they age, the greater majority of the population lives on government-issued retirement and cannot afford living in such residential settings (Bresson & Labit, 2020). Driven by this need, unique models in France have been developed. The Ages Sans Frontières initiative (https://www.agessansfrontieres.fr/nos-etablissements/maison-partagee/les-maisons-partagees-de-brens/les-maisons-partagees-de-brens/) provides accessible and affordable shared seniors’ homes, where a group of 6 to 12 seniors in each shared home provide support for each other with a house keeper, present during working hours, who help them organize themselves, creating a sustainable and affordable self-support community. In this setting, seniors are able to support each other, despite their individual limitations or disabilities, through a community-focused approach. While shared housing for seniors is an ideal model in a world where retirement homes have become too expensive for most of the senior populations, the lack of continuous support in these shared homes is still a major problem that has been identified by seniors in the community. This project attempts to tackle this issue by developing an edge-based monitoring system capable to prevent and detect distress using motion sensors and a smart sound recognition sensor. This project explores four of the five Ps from the WHO-GATE 5P framework (World Health Organization, 2022), focusing on developing supportive technology (Products) for seniors in need (People), and to support service provision (Service Provision and Personnel) for shared seniors’ homes...Keywords: AAL, shared homes, senior living, sustainability, IoT, independence, autonomy
P. P. Morita, D. Istrate, V. Zalc, P. Rumeau, N. Vigouroux, E. Campo (2024). Sustainable AAL technology for supporting seniors in independent living shared homes. Gerontechnology, 23(2), 4-4
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2024.23.s.894.4.sp