Astell, A.J., Gradisek, A., Bizjak, J. et al. (25 more authors) (2018) INLIFE - independent living support functions for the elderly : technology and pilot overview. In: Chatzigiannakis, I., Tobe, Y., Novais, P. and Amft, O., (eds.) Intelligent Environments 2018. The 14th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - IE '18, 25-28 Jun 2018, Rome, Italy. IOS Press , pp. 526-535. ISBN 9781614998730
Abstract
In this paper, we present the European H2020 project INLIFE (INdependent LIving support Functions for the Elderly). The project brought together 20 partners from nine countries with the goal of integrating into a common ICT platform a range of technologies intended to assist community-dwelling older people with cognitive impairment. The majority of technologies existed prior to INLIFE and a key goal was to bring them together in one place along with a number of new applications to provide a comprehensive set of services. The range of INLIFE services fell into four broad areas: Independent Living Support, Travel Support, Socialization and Communication Support and Caregiver Support. These included security applications, services to facilitate interactions with formal and informal caregivers, multilingual conversation support, web-based physical exercises, teleconsultations, and support for transport navigation. In total, over 2900 people participated in the project; they included elderly adults with cognitive impairment, informal caregivers, healthcare professionals, and other stakeholders. The aim of the study was to assess whether there was improvement/stabilization of cognitive/emotional/physical functioning, as well as overall well-being and quality of life of those using the INLIFE services, and to assess user acceptance of the platform and individual services. The results confirm there is a huge interest and appetite for technological services to support older adults living with cognitive impairment in the community. Different services attracted different amounts of use and evaluation with some proving extremely popular while others less so. The findings provide useful information on the ways in which older adults and their families, health and social care services and other stakeholders wish to access technological services, what sort of services they are seeking, what sort of support they need to access services, and how these services might be funded.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
Keywords: | active aging; elderly support systems; cognitive impairments |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Health and Related Research (Sheffield) > ScHARR - Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number European Commission - Horizon 2020 643442 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 10 Dec 2019 11:51 |
Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2019 11:19 |
Published Version: | http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/intelligent-envir... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IOS Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3233/978-1-61499-874-7-526 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:154357 |