Ambient Assisted Living and ageing: Preliminary results of RITA project

Author

Aquilano, Michela ; Cavallo, Filippo ; Bonaccorsi, Manuele ; Esposito, Raffaele ; Rovini, E. ; Filippi, Matteo ; Esposito, D. ; Dario, P. ; Carrozza, Maria

Author_Institution

BioRobotics Inst., Scuola Superiore Sant´Anna, Pontedera, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012

Firstpage

5823

Lastpage

5826

Abstract

The ageing of population is a social phenomenon that most of worldwide countries are facing. They are, and will be even more in the future, indeed trying to find solutions for improving quality of life of their elderly citizens. The project RITA wants to demonstrate that an update of the current socio-medical services with an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) approach could improve the service efficiency and the quality of life of both elderly and caregiver. This paper presents the preliminary results obtained in RITA.

Keywords

biomedical communication; geriatrics; health care; medical information systems; AAL; ICT; RITA project; ambient assisted ageing; ambient assisted living; information and communications technology; quality of life; service efficiency; socio-medical services; Aging; Biomedical monitoring; Context; Monitoring; Organizations; Prototypes; Senior citizens; Aged; Aging; Assisted Living Facilities; Humans; Quality of Life;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4119-8

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347318

Filename

6347318