Title :
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
fDate :
Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012
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;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4119-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1557-170X
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347318
