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Using IoT Assistive Technologies for Older People Non-Invasive Monitoring and Living Support in Their Homes

Many western societies are confronted with issues in planning and adapting their health policies due to an ageing population living alone. The “NOt Alone at Home—NOAH” project aimed to involve older people in the Agile co-creation of services for a collaborative monitoring and awareness notification...

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Autores principales: Moraru, Sorin-Aurel, Moșoi, Adrian Alexandru, Kristaly, Dominic Mircea, Moraru, Ionuț, Petre, Vlad Ștefan, Ungureanu, Delia Elisabeta, Perniu, Liviu Marian, Rosenberg, Dan, Cocuz, Maria Elena
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9140921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627427
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105890
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author Moraru, Sorin-Aurel
Moșoi, Adrian Alexandru
Kristaly, Dominic Mircea
Moraru, Ionuț
Petre, Vlad Ștefan
Ungureanu, Delia Elisabeta
Perniu, Liviu Marian
Rosenberg, Dan
Cocuz, Maria Elena
author_facet Moraru, Sorin-Aurel
Moșoi, Adrian Alexandru
Kristaly, Dominic Mircea
Moraru, Ionuț
Petre, Vlad Ștefan
Ungureanu, Delia Elisabeta
Perniu, Liviu Marian
Rosenberg, Dan
Cocuz, Maria Elena
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description Many western societies are confronted with issues in planning and adapting their health policies due to an ageing population living alone. The “NOt Alone at Home—NOAH” project aimed to involve older people in the Agile co-creation of services for a collaborative monitoring and awareness notification for remote caregivers. Our research aim was to create a scalable and modern information system that permitted a non-invasive monitorization of the users for keeping their caregivers up to date. This was done via a cloud IoT (Internet of Things), which collects and processes data from its domotic sensors. The notifications generated by the system, via the three applications we developed (NOAH/NOAH Care/Admin Centre), offer caregivers an easy way of detecting changes in the day-to-day behaviour and activities of their patients, giving them time to intervene in case of abnormal activity. Such an approach would lead to a longer and more independent life for the older people. We evaluated our system by conducting a year-long pilot-study, offering caregivers constant information from the end-users while still living independently. For creating our pilot groups, we used the ABAS (Adaptive Behaviour Assessment System) II, which we then matched with the pre-profiled Behavioral Analysis Models of older people familiar with modern communication devices. Our results showed a low association between daily skills and the sensors we used, in contrast with the results from previous studies done in this field. Another result was efficiently capturing the behaviour changes that took place due to the COVID-19 Lockdown measures.
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spelling pubmed-91409212022-05-28 Using IoT Assistive Technologies for Older People Non-Invasive Monitoring and Living Support in Their Homes Moraru, Sorin-Aurel Moșoi, Adrian Alexandru Kristaly, Dominic Mircea Moraru, Ionuț Petre, Vlad Ștefan Ungureanu, Delia Elisabeta Perniu, Liviu Marian Rosenberg, Dan Cocuz, Maria Elena Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Many western societies are confronted with issues in planning and adapting their health policies due to an ageing population living alone. The “NOt Alone at Home—NOAH” project aimed to involve older people in the Agile co-creation of services for a collaborative monitoring and awareness notification for remote caregivers. Our research aim was to create a scalable and modern information system that permitted a non-invasive monitorization of the users for keeping their caregivers up to date. This was done via a cloud IoT (Internet of Things), which collects and processes data from its domotic sensors. The notifications generated by the system, via the three applications we developed (NOAH/NOAH Care/Admin Centre), offer caregivers an easy way of detecting changes in the day-to-day behaviour and activities of their patients, giving them time to intervene in case of abnormal activity. Such an approach would lead to a longer and more independent life for the older people. We evaluated our system by conducting a year-long pilot-study, offering caregivers constant information from the end-users while still living independently. For creating our pilot groups, we used the ABAS (Adaptive Behaviour Assessment System) II, which we then matched with the pre-profiled Behavioral Analysis Models of older people familiar with modern communication devices. Our results showed a low association between daily skills and the sensors we used, in contrast with the results from previous studies done in this field. Another result was efficiently capturing the behaviour changes that took place due to the COVID-19 Lockdown measures. MDPI 2022-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9140921/ /pubmed/35627427 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105890 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ungureanu, Delia Elisabeta
Perniu, Liviu Marian
Rosenberg, Dan
Cocuz, Maria Elena
Using IoT Assistive Technologies for Older People Non-Invasive Monitoring and Living Support in Their Homes
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title_short Using IoT Assistive Technologies for Older People Non-Invasive Monitoring and Living Support in Their Homes
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9140921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35627427
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19105890
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