Information and communication technologies for promoting and sustaining quality of life, health and self-sufficiency in ageing societies - outcomes of the Lower Saxony Research Network Design of Environments for Ageing (GAL)
Autor(en): | Haux, Reinhold Hein, Andreas Kolb, Gerald Kuenemund, Harald Eichelberg, Marco Appell, Jens-E. Appelrath, H. -Juergen Bartsch, Christian Bauer, Juergen M. Becker, Marcus Bente, Petra Bitzer, Joerg Boll, Susanne Buesching, Felix Dasenbrock, Lena Deparade, Riana Depner, Dominic Elbers, Katharina Fachinger, Uwe Felber, Juliane Feldwieser, Florian Forberg, Anne Gietzelt, Matthias Goetze, Stefan Goevercin, Mehmet Helmer, Axel Herzke, Tobias Hesselmann, Tobias Heuten, Wilko Huber, Rainer Huelsken-Giesler, Manfred Jacobs, Gerold Kalbe, Elke Kerling, Arno Klingeberg, Timo Koeltzsch, Yvonne Lammel-Polchau, Christopher Ludwig, Wolfram Marschollek, Michael Martens, Birger Meis, Markus Meyer, Eike Michael Meyer, Jochen Schwabedissen, Hubertus Meyer Zu Moritz, Niko Mueller, Heiko Nebel, Wolfgang Neyer, Franz J. Okken, Petra-Karin Rahe, Julia Remmers, Hartmut Roelker-Denker, Lars Schilling, Meinhard Schoepke, Birte Schroeder, Jens Schulze, Gisela C. Schulze, Mareike Siltmann, Sina Song, Bianying Spehr, Jens Steen, Enno-Edzard Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elisabeth Tanschus, Nele-Marie Tegtbur, Uwe Thiel, Andreas Thoben, Wilfried van Hengel, Peter Wabnik, Stefan Wegel, Sandra Wilken, Olaf Winkelbach, Simon Wist, Thorben Wolf, Klaus-Hendrik Wolf, Lars Zokoll-van der Laan, Melanie Lower Saxony Res Network GAL |
Stichwörter: | ACCELEROMETERS; Ambient-assisted living; assisted living facilities; assistive technologies; BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS; CARE; demographic aging; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; Health Care Sciences & Services; health-enabling technologies; HOME; independent living; Medical Informatics; REHABILITATION; REQUIREMENTS; SERVICES; smart interaction; SUPPORT; SYSTEMS | Erscheinungsdatum: | 2014 | Herausgeber: | TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC | Journal: | INFORMATICS FOR HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE | Volumen: | 39 | Ausgabe: | 3-4 | Startseite: | 166 | Seitenende: | 187 | Zusammenfassung: | Many societies across the world are confronted with demographic changes, usually related to increased life expectancy and, often, relatively low birth rates. Information and communication technologies (ICT) may contribute to adequately support senior citizens in aging societies with respect to quality of life and quality and efficiency of health care processes. For investigating and for providing answers on whether new information and communication technologies can contribute to keeping, or even improving quality of life, health and self-sufficiency in ageing societies through new ways of living and new forms of care, the Lower Saxony Research Network Design of Environments for Ageing (GAL) had been established as a five years research project, running from 2008 to 2013. Ambient-assisted living (AAL) technologies in personal and home environments were especially important. In this article we report on the GAL project, and present some of its major outcomes after five years of research. We report on major challenges and lessons learned in running and organizing such a large, inter- and multidisciplinary project and discuss GAL in the context of related research projects. With respect to research outcomes, we have, for example, learned new knowledge about multimodal and speech-based human-machine-interaction mechanisms for persons with functional restrictions, and identified new methods and developed new algorithms for identifying activities of daily life and detecting acute events, particularly falls. A total of 79 apartments of senior citizens had been equipped with specific ``GAL technology'', providing new insights into the use of sensor data for smart homes. Major challenges we had to face were to deal constructively with GAL's highly inter-and multidisciplinary aspects, with respect to research into GAL's application scenarios, shifting from theory and lab experimentation to field tests, and the complexity of organizing and, in our view, successfully managing such a large project. Overall it can be stated that, from our point of view, the GAL research network has been run successfully and has achieved its major research objectives. Since we now know much more on how and where to use AAL technologies for new environments of living and new forms of care, a future focus for research can now be outlined for systematically planned studies, scientifically exploring the benefits of AAL technologies for senior citizens, in particular with respect to quality of life and the quality and efficiency of health care. |
ISSN: | 17538157 | DOI: | 10.3109/17538157.2014.931849 |
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