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Integration of Stationary and Wearable Support Services for an Actively Assisted Living of Elderly People: Capabilities, Achievements, Limitations, Prospects—A Case Study

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Within the recent three years, a stationary home assistance system has been developed, continuously optimized and operated for supporting seniors of very high age. In the last year, the scope of the system has been extended by function and beyond the spatial borders of the familiar home by a smartwatch with integrated cellular radio (Samsung Gear™ S) as a wearable device. All condensed data from the different stationary and mobile sensors are transferred to and collected by a central server for long-term analysis. The technical structure of the system is presented and its capabilities will be described, especially with respect to the variation of collected data over time in the course of a progressing dementia of one of the inhabitants. The different achievements and perceived value, which the system delivers to its users and their relatives over the course of the years will be presented. But also the limitations of the currently available technology in comparison the actual demand of the inhabitants and their relatives will be characterized which defines the boundary conditions and guidelines for further research.

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Notes

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    ADLs have been a central issue in organizing professional nursing practice and for determining the independency status of elderly people, they have been introduced by Sidney Katz more than 60 years ago. In Germany, Liliane Juchli has elaborated these ADLs for a systematic professional care management [2]. In our work, we focus on a small subset of computationally tractable ADLs.

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    Assuming at least a typical one week cycle for calculating the specific, possibly varying T, TN, SN, F nominal values for the individual days of a week. If the current day under consideration is a national or local holiday, based on the Western cultural context, the values for the last Sunday will be used instead.

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    The field is currently carried out with a group of persons in need of support in a rural area of the State of Hesse, Germany, near Marburg, and the urban Rhein-Main area, in cooperation with the Deutsche Rotes Kreuz (DRK) as the caritative service provider. The field test is managed and scientifically accompanied/ assessed by the Frankfurt University or Applied Science (UAS) in the scope of the Hessian state excellence program “LOEWE”s GSMTS project [16, 17]).

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    We finally decided against this sensor technology due to its susceptibility against smart home functions like “virtual inhabitant” or “presence simulation”, which deliberately produce confusing load patterns in the case of absence of the inhabitants.

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Lutze, R., Waldhör, K. (2017). Integration of Stationary and Wearable Support Services for an Actively Assisted Living of Elderly People: Capabilities, Achievements, Limitations, Prospects—A Case Study. In: Wichert, R., Mand, B. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. Advanced Technologies and Societal Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52322-4_1

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