TY - GEN
T1 - Assistive technology megatrends to support persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias age in habitat
T2 - Workshop on Human-Habitat for Health: Human-Habitat Multimodal Interaction for Promoting Health and Well-Being in the Internet of Things Era, H3 2018 - 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2018
AU - Zanwar, Preeti
AU - Heyn, Patricia C.
AU - McGrew, Greg
AU - Raji, Mukaila
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/10/16
Y1 - 2018/10/16
N2 - Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are debilitating neurodegenerative disorders affecting one in every ten older Americans. In the United States, roughly 35.6 million Americans have dementia and approximately 5.7 million have Alzheimer’s. By 2050, the count is expected to increase to 13.2 million older Americans. Alzheimer’s is the top sixth cause of death in the U.S. People with ADRD face substantial challenges adapting to their physical, psychological and social environments. Like cognitively-intact older adults, ADRD persons prefer to age in place in a familiar environment. However, aging in one’s own habitat comes with the potential for loneliness, social isolation, and the consequences of impaired mobility that threaten the displacement of ADRD persons to non-preferred living arrangements. The decrease in multi-generational living and increase in nuclear family living calls for innovative solutions to promote safe mobility, independence, decision making and communication for persons with ADRD. Assistive technologies (ATs) if user friendly and properly engineered for persons with ADRD, hold the potential to enhance daily functioning and improve the quality of life for ADRD persons in living habitats of their choices. This review paper aims to discuss existing and emerging AT megatrends in the Internet of things (loT) era. Five technological megatrends are examined: assistive robots (e.g. assistance in daily activities, social robots for communication, telepresence robots for social connectedness), biometric sensors and movement sensor technologies (IMURs) for gait and walkability (e.g.
AB - Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) are debilitating neurodegenerative disorders affecting one in every ten older Americans. In the United States, roughly 35.6 million Americans have dementia and approximately 5.7 million have Alzheimer’s. By 2050, the count is expected to increase to 13.2 million older Americans. Alzheimer’s is the top sixth cause of death in the U.S. People with ADRD face substantial challenges adapting to their physical, psychological and social environments. Like cognitively-intact older adults, ADRD persons prefer to age in place in a familiar environment. However, aging in one’s own habitat comes with the potential for loneliness, social isolation, and the consequences of impaired mobility that threaten the displacement of ADRD persons to non-preferred living arrangements. The decrease in multi-generational living and increase in nuclear family living calls for innovative solutions to promote safe mobility, independence, decision making and communication for persons with ADRD. Assistive technologies (ATs) if user friendly and properly engineered for persons with ADRD, hold the potential to enhance daily functioning and improve the quality of life for ADRD persons in living habitats of their choices. This review paper aims to discuss existing and emerging AT megatrends in the Internet of things (loT) era. Five technological megatrends are examined: assistive robots (e.g. assistance in daily activities, social robots for communication, telepresence robots for social connectedness), biometric sensors and movement sensor technologies (IMURs) for gait and walkability (e.g.
KW - ACM proceedings
KW - Alzheimer’s Disease & Related Dementia
KW - Assistive Technologies
KW - Engineering
KW - Medical technologies
KW - People with disabilities
KW - Policy
KW - Remote medicine
KW - Usability
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U2 - 10.1145/3279963.3279971
DO - 10.1145/3279963.3279971
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056638435
T3 - Proceedings of the Human-Habitat for Health (H3): Human-Habitat Multimodal Interaction for Promoting Health and Well-Being in the Internet of Things era - 20th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2018
BT - Proceedings of the Human-Habitat for Health (H3)
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 16 October 2018
ER -