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Assistive technology to monitor activity, health and wellbeing in old age : The wrist wearable unit in the USEFIL project

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Ahanathapillai, Vijayalakshmi, Amor, J. D., James, Christopher J., Cowan, Donna, Judge, Simon and Cudd, Peter (2015) Assistive technology to monitor activity, health and wellbeing in old age : The wrist wearable unit in the USEFIL project. Technology and Disability, 27 (1-2). pp. 17-29. doi:10.3233/TAD-150425

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/TAD-150425

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Abstract

This paper presents the assistive technology used to perform activity monitoring in the USEFIL (Unobtrusive Smart Environments for Independent Living) project, particularly the wrist wearable unit. USEFIL includes a number of activity monitoring devices alongside some condition specific medical devices, a dedicated electronic health record database and communication backend. The system is designed as an assistive technology to provide long-term monitoring for older people in their own home and communicate the data that is gathered into a decision support system that can be used by the older person's carers to improve their care and allow them to remain independent in their own home. The wrist wearable device developed for the USEFIL project, the various health indicators extracted from its inbuilt sensors and how these are used to understand the health and wellbeing of the older person are discussed in this paper.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Engineering
Faculty of Science > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group)
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Older people -- Home care, Medical telematics, Population aging
Journal or Publication Title: Technology and Disability
Publisher: I O S Press
ISSN: 1055-4181
Official Date: 2015
Dates:
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2015UNSPECIFIED
Volume: 27
Number: 1-2
Page Range: pp. 17-29
DOI: 10.3233/TAD-150425
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
Funder: Seventh Framework Programme (European Commission) (FP7)
Grant number: Grant agreement no: 288532

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