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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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Melanie Davern, Rachel Winterton, Kathleen Brasher and Geoff Woolcock
The Age-Friendly Cities and Communities Guide was released by the World Health Organization over a decade ago with the aim of creating environments that support healthy ageing. The comprehensive framework includes the domains of outdoor spaces and buildi...
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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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Maria João Forjaz, Carmen Rodriguez-Blazquez, Inmaculada Guerrero-Fernández de Alba, Antonio Gimeno-Miguel, Kevin Bliek-Bueno, Alexandra Prados-Torres and on behalf of the CHRODIS Expert Group on Multimorbidity
The Integrated Multimorbidity Care Model (IMCM), developed by the Joint Action on Chronic Diseases and Promoting Healthy Ageing across the Life Cycle (JA-CHRODIS), proposes a set of 16 multidimensional components (i.e., recommendations) to improve the ca...
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Janet M. Boekhout, Brenda A. J. Berendsen, Denise A. Peels, Catherine A. W. Bolman and Lilian Lechner
This study explores the effectiveness of the Active Plus65 intervention designed to stimulate physical activity among single older adults with a chronic physical impairment. A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test study was performed. The intervention gr...
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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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Alexandra Queirós, Ana Dias, Anabela G. Silva and Nelson Pacheco Rocha
The active ageing paradigm aims to contribute to the expectation of a long, autonomous, independent and healthy life. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) promotes the development of technological solutions that might have a key role in not only the optimizatio...
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Isabella Aboderin, Megumi Kano and Hilda Akinyi Owii
A majority of urban residents in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and other developing regions live in informal settlements, or slums. Much of the discourse on slum health centres on younger generations, while an intensifying agenda on healthy ageing as yet lack...
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Chiara Piezzo and Kenji Suzuki
The impact of the world-wide ageing population has commenced with respect to society in developed countries. Several researchers focused on exploring new methods to improve the quality of life of elderly individuals by allowing them to remain independent...
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