This paper describes the evolution of an early illness warning system used by an interdisciplinary team composed of clinicians and engineers in an independent living facility. The early illness warning system consists of algorithms which analyze resident activity patterns obtained from sensors embedded in residents' apartments. The engineers designed an automated reasoning system to generate cl...

This paper describes an implemented robot system, which relies heavily on probabilistic AI techniques for acting under uncertainty. The robot Pearl and its predecessor Flo have been developed by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers over the past three years. The goal of this research is to investigate the feasibility of assisting elderly people with cognitive and physical activity limitatio...

This paper describes an implemented robot system, which relies heavily on probabilistic AI techniques for acting under uncertainty. The robot Pearl and its predecessor Flo have been developed by a multi-disciplinary team of researchers over the past three years. The goal of this research is to investigate the feasibility of assisting elderly people with cognitive and physical activity limitatio...

While elderly people perform their daily indoor activities, they are subjected to several risks. To improve the quality of life of elderly people and promote healthy aging and independent living, elderly people need to be provided with an assistive technology platform to rely on during their activities. We reviewed the literature and identified the major indoor risks addressed by assistive tech...

The population of elderly people keeps increasing rapidly, which becomes a predominant aspect of our societies. As such, solutions both efficacious and cost-effective need to be sought. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a new approach which promises to address the needs from elderly people. In this paper, we claim that human participation is a key ingredient towards effective AAL systems, which ...

The aging of the population in Japan is a serious problem, and the reform of the public pension system is a major political issue. Although the 2004 pension reform was enforced in Japan to ensure a sustainable pension system in such an aging society, people remain quite apprehensive about the pension system. They believe that the current situation wherein a considerable number of people are not...

OBJECTIVES To determine the relation between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and support for dependent elderly people in Africa. DESIGN Retrospective analysis using data from Demographic and Health Surveys. SETTING 22 African countries between 1991 and 2006. PARTICIPANTS 123,176 individuals over the age of 60. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES We investigated how three measures of the living arrangements of ...