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This paper presents a system that exploits the synergy between wearable/mobile technology and smart caring environments to support caregivers in Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs) for persons with physical and cognitive disabilities. In particular, this healthcare support system allows caregivers to be automatically alerted of potentially hazardous situations that happen to the inhabitants while these are alone. The design stemmed from six system requirements derived from the results of three focus groups conducted with 30 caregivers of different ALFs in Northern Italy.
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An assisted living facility is a housing facility for persons with disabilities. ALFs ensure health, safety, and well-being conditions for people in situation of dependency due to cognitive or physical disabilities. In these facilities, unlike in hospitals, there are no full-time nurses nor physicians providing medical treatments.
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http://www.coopfrassati.com/ (last visited on July 20, 2014).
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An open source gateway for home and building automation, based on the OSGi framework which provides interoperability between different IoT devices (http://dog-gateway.github.io).
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http://github.com/poelzi/OpenChronos (last visited on July 20, 2014).
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A credit-card sized computer with 512 MB of RAM, two USB ports and a 100 Mb Ethernet port.
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Aced López, S., Corno, F., De Russis, L. (2015). IoT Meets Caregivers: A Healthcare Support System in Assisted Living Facilities. In: Giaffreda, R., et al. Internet of Things. User-Centric IoT. IoT360 2014. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 150. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19656-5_25
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