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Functional Assessment in Elderlies’ Homes: Early Results from a Field Trial

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Ambient Assisted Living

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Early results from a field trial regarding the assessment of functional status relevant to self-care ability in domestic environments are presented. A previously developed technical system for unobtrusively recording location information using home automation data was installed in the homes of five participants aged 64–84 years over a period of partially more than nine month. The recordings are manually evaluated to check whether items of geriatric assessment tests relevant to self-care ability can be assessed using the sensor recordings. The evaluation is a preliminary step to develop an automatic assessment algorithm and to develop a model for mapping domestic assessment results to result scales of clinical assessment tests. The mapping is required since most clinical assessment tests are not suitable for execution in domestic environments and thus new approaches are required which do also account for the difference between performance and capacity in functional abilities as proposed within WHO’s ICF.

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This work was in part funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research within the research project PAGE (grant 01FCO8044) and in part by the Ministry for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony within the Research Network “Design of Environments for Ageing” through the “Niedersächsisches Vorab” grant programme (grant ZN 2701).

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  1. OFFIS—Institute for Information Technology, Escherweg 2, 26121, Oldenburg, Germany

    Enno-E. Steen, Thomas Frenken & Melina Frenken

  2. School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Ammerländer Heerstraße 114–118, 26129, Oldenburg, Germany

    Andreas Hein

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Steen, EE., Frenken, T., Frenken, M., Hein, A. (2014). Functional Assessment in Elderlies’ Homes: Early Results from a Field Trial. In: Wichert, R., Klausing, H. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. Advanced Technologies and Societal Change. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37988-8_1

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