Strategies for Aging in Place

Strategies for Aging in Place

Aging in Place within Elderly People in the Southwest Iran

Introduction: Iran and its aged society are facing some issues that significantly impact the current social structures in Iran. It will continue to do so on their growing as elderly with negative impacts on communal relations and unjust distribution of resources based on a gender basis that will affect the aging in place (AiP). The study aims to investigate the AiP within aged people and modify...

Distributed Smart Cameras for Aging in Place*

This paper describes the design and preliminary implementation of two distributed smart camera applications: a fall detector and an object finder. These functions are part of a novel suite of applications being developed to address “aging in place” health care technologies. Our approach to these applications is unique in that they are based heavily on video data, whereas other solutions may req...

Emerging Technologies for Aging in Place

Extraordinary societal changes in the United States have taken place from both human and technological perspectives. Life expectancy continues to increase, due to improvements in both medical care and technology. Older adults, 65 years plus, comprise about 12.4% of the United States population with about one in every eight Americans being in this age group (U.S. Administration on Aging, 2002). ...

Aging in Place in the Carolinas