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The population of Western countries has notoriously aged during the last decades, thus increasing the number of people living in retirement houses. This causes that, in certain circumstances, the staff of these residences can not properly take care of all the users due to several situations. For that reason, the usage of solutions based on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to support such staff has arisen over the last years. In this context, the present work introduces a new Smart Assistance solution for retirement houses. Based on a mobile-sensing paradigm, the proposed framework is able to collect several health and physical parameters of the users and visualize them in a central multi-platform dashboard. Furthermore, the system allows detecting certain abnormal or dangerous situations related to the residence’s users and send alarms to the staff providing also proactive functionalities. Our proposal is illustrated through a case of use for a patient in an early stage of the Alzheimer’s disease and a tendency to be sedentary.
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This publication is based upon work from the Fundación Séneca del Centro de Coordinación de la Investigación de la Región de Murcia under Project 20813/PI/18 and from the Sheldon COST Action CA16226 Indoor Living Space Improvement: Smart Habitat for the Elderly, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). COST is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation. www.cost.eu
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Terroso-Saenz, F., Albaladejo, A., Llanes, A., Sidhu, N., Muñoz, A. (2021). Towards a Monitoring Framework for Users of Retirement Houses with Mobile Sensing. In: Pires, I.M., Spinsante, S., Zdravevski, E., Lameski, P. (eds) Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good. GOODTECHS 2021. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 401. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91421-9_8
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