Impact of music on wellbeing of older persons and their technology acceptance of IoT Ring as the measuring device
C. K. Tan, Y. S. Hsu, M. Tsai
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AbstractThe aging of the population is a major challenge facing superageing places around the world. More policies are introduced to support expand the service capacity and provide a community-based, high-quality, universal, affordable, diverse and continuous comprehensive long-term care system. New elderly medical and care service models are designed to create a healthy, energetic, happy and elderly-friendly communities. In addition, providing health promotion and management for healthy and sub-healthy elderly people can slow down aging, improve the quality of life of the elderly, and indirectly reduce medical costs. This research study which uses an IoT ring from LeadTek (Taiwan) to closely monitor the impact of music on improving the well-being of the elderly in Singapore and Taiwan and Canada communities. The elderly in the three countries have similar characteristics in the cultural, psychological and social environment. This study will be jointly conducted by National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada.Keywords: IoT ring, music, elderly, quality of life
C. K. Tan, Y. S. Hsu, M. Tsai (2024). Impact of music on wellbeing of older persons and their technology acceptance of IoT Ring as the measuring device. Gerontechnology, 23(2), 1-1
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2024.23.s.1054.opp