Elder abuse is a serious but preventable public health threat for many persons in later life (Summers and Hoffman, 2006). Since first identified more than 30 years ago as a social problem, elder abuse, like other forms of family or interpersonal violence, has become recognized as a universal...
3.3.3.1 Comparison between automated and conventional driving Table 4 (elderly drivers) and 5 (middle-aged drivers) show the results of the nine items for drivers’ subjective assessment of their situational awareness during automated and conventional driving. For most of the nine items, the average...
For those who live alone, smartwatches can be life-saving in case of emergency, giving a peace of mind to both the elderly and their loved ones. Smart Kitchen Appliances: Many senior citizens experience memory loss will keep buying the same product, or leave the food cooking until it burnt...
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Citation email alert Citation RSS feedAbstract In a context of progressive loss of intellectual and interactional capacities for the elderly, the goal of this article is to examine to what extent a new technological environment can improve their quality of life. In this study, we examine the very...
In a real-life scenario, a computer user may deal with different work patterns with varying levels of mental demands. Additionally, to allow for comparison of TOT across subjects, the randomly generated patterns were kept identical (See Methods). However, one may conceive that the non-...
aComparison of antibody response of the vaccinees (n = 35) at days 21, 90 and 180 using the SFB assays with cells expressing either the Wuhan ancestral virus (W), the delta (D) or Omicron (O) variants of the Spike protein. Median values of the samples were at day 21, 90 and...
It's a normal reaction to life's losses and disappointments. For the elderly, who are likely to experience declining health, the death of a spouse, and the loss of one relative or friend after another, it's not unusual for that sadness to linger. Nonetheless, staying "down in the dumps...
nevertheless events remain nearly 6-fold higher among elderly dialysis patients than in the elderly general population (Fig 6).2,47In addition tocardiac disease, peripheral vascular disease inhemodialysispatients is a major comorbid condition, significantly affecting bothquality of lifeandoverall survival...
Wearable deviceOpenHAB Feature mapsNeural networksHealth monitoring devices have flooded the market. But there are very few that cater specifically to the needs of elderly people. Continuously monitoring some critical health parameters like heart rate, body temperature can be lifesaving when the elderly...