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Mirela Cristea,Gratiela Georgiana Noja,Yannis Thalassinos
The research aims to identify several dissimilarities between the European Union Member States (EU-27 MS) in terms of welfare and labour market dimensions under the sheer implications of the ageing phenomenon. The quantitative research methodology emphas...
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Fasih Haider, Pierre Albert and Saturnino Luz
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies are being developed which could assist elderly people to live healthy and active lives. These technologies have been used to monitor people?s daily exercises, consumption of calories and sleep patterns, and to p...
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Pedro Madureira, Nuno Cardoso, Filipe Sousa, Waldir Moreira, Antonio Oliveira-Jr, Marco Bazzani and Philip Gouverneur
The population is getting old, and the use of technology has improved the quality of life of the senior population. This is confirmed by the increasing number of solutions targeting healthy and active ageing. Such solutions keep track of the daily routin...
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Davide Coluzzi, Massimo W. Rivolta, Alfonso Mastropietro, Simone Porcelli, Marco L. Mauri, Marta T. L. Civiello, Enrico Denna, Giovanna Rizzo and Roberto Sassi
Wearable sensors play a significant role for monitoring the functional ability of the elderly and in general, promoting active ageing. One of the relevant variables to be tracked is the number of stair steps (single stair steps) performed daily, which is...
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Nadhirah Nordin,Hitoshi Nakamura
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This paper aims to investigate the relation between objective and perceived neighbourhood walkability and its influence on the physical activity level of older adults. The relationships were used to measure older people's neighbourhood liveability, where...
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Raquel Flores, Antonio Caballer and Ana Alarcón
Due to the ageing of the world?s population, age-friendly cities are emerging to promote active ageing by optimising opportunities for health, participation and safety, in order to improve the quality of life of older people. Despite initiatives in diffe...
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Masa Noguchi, Nan Ma, Catherine Mei Min Woo, Hing-wah Chau and Jin Zhou
Growing ageing population today may be necessitating building design decision makers to reconsider the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) standards in a way that accommodates senior occupants’ diverse and individual needs and demands. An experience...
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J. Raja Meenakshi
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Every human being has to face the ageing process and no one could escape from it. The understanding of ageing differs from culture to culture and it varies across nations. World Health Organization recognized that the developing world often defines old a...
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Vera Stara, Lorena Rossi and Gianfranco Borrelli
User-based research is strongly recommended in design for older adults. The aim of this paper is to focus the attention on the poorly explored role of medical and para-medical personnel?s perspective on home health care technologies using data that have ...
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Georg Aumayr, Doris Marie Bleier and Nadine Sturm
Since 2012, several national and international projects on ambient assisted living (AAL) active and healthy ageing gave insight into the different steps of development processes where the requirements of the target group were not met or just failed to be...
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