Healthy Ageing in Smart Villages? Observations from the Field

Healthy ageing: ageing safely.

The population of the developed world is steadily ageing. In the European Union, approximately 22% of persons are over 60 years of age and this is projected to increase to more than 27% by the year 2020. This has major implications for health care resources and the productive workforce. Ageing is accompanied by a decline in the physiological reserve of all organ systems, compromising homeostasi...

Healthy Ageing

2. Life Expetancy at birth-In the early 1950's average expetancy at birth worldwise was 47 years and in several countries it was almost 80. 3. In India life expetancy in 1995 was 62. It has currently a population of 60 millions elderly persons i.e. 6% of its total population. It is expected to be 150 million by the year 2025 i.e. about 12% population. 4. Table (attached) gives this information ...

Enabling active and healthy ageing decision support systems with the smart collection of TV usage patterns

Smart monitoring of seniors behavioural patterns and more specifically activities of daily living have attracted immense research interest in recent years. Development of smart decision support systems to support the promotion of health smart homes has also emerged taking advantage of the plethora of smart, inexpensive and unobtrusive monitoring sensors, devices and software tools. To this end,...

From Healthy to Happy Ageing: the Power of Self-Management

Background. Healthy ageing is about optimising opportunities for good health, so that older people can take an active part in society and enjoy an independent and high quality of life [1]. In the last 15-20 years, many research projects under FP7, H2020 and AAL frameworks proposed novel solutions aimed at improving good health also ensuring a more independent living and an higher quality of lif...

Healthy ageing: moving forward