Assistive Technologies (AT) are an application area where several Artificial Intelligence techniques and tools have been successfully applied to support elder or impeded people on their daily activities. However, approaches to AT tend to center in the user-tool interaction, neglecting the user’s connection with its social environment (such as caretakers, relatives and health professionals) and ...

he new Elder Economic Security StandardTM Index (Elder Index) for California documents that the federal poverty guideline covers less than half of the basic costs experienced by adults age 65 and older in the state. The federal poverty guideline is often used to determine income eligibility for public programs and in allocating resources to communities. The federal poverty guideline for a singl...

There has been little research on how young people respect, or disrespect, older adults. This study explored the ways in which young adults connote elder respect by utilizing two different forms of data. Based on quantitative data from a survey of 521 college students, a set of 11 behavioral forms of elder respect was obtained. Out of these forms, 6 were identified as most frequently practiced....

Problem 1. [20 points] You are organizing a neighborhood census and instruct your census takers to knock on doors and note the sex of any child that answers the knock. Assume that there are two children in a household, that children are equally likely to be girls and boys, and that girls and boys are equally likely to open the door. A sample space for this experiment has outcomes that are tripl...

Politicians and researchers have begun to pay more attention to elder abuse in recent times. Most of the research on elder abuse has focused on cases of abuse perpetrated by family members, treating the phenomenon as a social problem, but it is increasingly being conceptualized as a crime problem. The current study examines elder abuse in nursing homes from a criminological perspective. Using r...

Activity recognition technique is critical for the elderly people. To avoid the need of full time care giving service, the actual trend is to encourage elderly to stay living autonomously in their homes as long as possible. Reliable activity recognition techniques can improve life safety of the elderly and boost their confidence by immediately alerting fall cases to caregivers. Machine learning...

Descriptions of innovative methods of responding to the concerns and needs of aging and old lesbians are scarce in research literature. This paper describes the creation of the Elder Initiative, a community building effort for aging and old lesbians in a major northwest city. With the aims of providing support networks for the women and ensuring their involvement in the development of the local...

Violence in families and elder abuse can take many forms, which his sometimes difficult to recognize. In Russia, elder abuse is rarely discussed in professional literature and mass media. A border between elder abuse and parricide can be indistinct. Borderline cases can include involvement of older people in binge drinking, denial of help, and manipulation towards suicide. Three example cases a...

This study, conceived in order to try to understand the situations that motivate families to place elderly relatives in nursing homes, used a methodological qualitative approach. Data collection was conducted through open interviews. The analysis of the answers resulted in two categories: the placement in a nursing home as a way to meet the elder person's needs; and the search for the best plac...

There is a keen desire to increase the detection and reporting of elder abuse. The purpose of this study was to describe the circumstances under which abuse is detected and reported and to identify the relationship dynamics that might be impacting detection and reporting decisions. Interviews were conducted with 71 Adult Protective Services (APS) caseworkers, 55 of their elderly clients, and 32...