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Smart Health Caring Home: A Systematic Review of Smart Home Care for Elders and Chronic Disease Patients

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Part of the Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology book series (AEMB, volume 989)

Abstract

As access to health care is important to people’s health especially for vulnerable groups that need nursing for a long period of time, new studies in the human sciences argue that the health of the population depend less on the quality of the health care, or on the amount of spending that goes into health care, and more heavily on the quality of everyday life. Smart home applications are designed to “sense” and monitor the health conditions of its residents through the use of a wide range of technological components (motion sensors, video cameras, wearable devices etc.), and web-based services that support their wish to stay at home. In this work, we provide a review of the main technological, psychosocial/ethical and economic challenges that the implementation of a Smart Health Caring Home raises.

Keywords

Smart environments Smart home Smart care Elderly people People with chronic disease/disabilities Monitoring Assistance Care Sensors Actuators Echnological Psychosocial Economic challenges Independent living Quality of life 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of InformaticsIonian UniversityCorfuGreece

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