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Older adults living with multiple chronic conditions, living in rural environments and/or living alone are particularly vulnerable. 1.2 Smart homes to facilitate aging in place Recently, ambient-assisted smart homes — residences equipped with ambient sensors and computing technologies that monitor the ...
Often, modes like Bass Boost and Dialogue Enhancement will have a price to pay in dynamics as well as balance and might better be left alone. If you really want more bass, perhaps buy a soundbar or add a subwoofer (more on that shortly). 2. Rearrange your furniture (Image credit: ...
A variety of cough-augmentation physical therapies, alone or in combination, can be used to increase PCEF and enhance cough efficacy. While the patients with weak expiratory muscle strength, but relatively well preserved inspiratory strength, may benefit from the abdominal-thrust maneuver, also termed...
In the virtual home environment, a target (elderly individual) living alone, and a monitoring robot were designed. The detail of the virtual home environment construction was shown in Supplement 1–2. Then the data of the BPSD which was used for testing model was simulated in the virtual ...
[48]. For caregivers the lack of trust was associated with the use of technologies, for example, leaving older persons alone with technology [81], worrying that older persons would not trust the technology [29,32] or that it could change their professional role [23]. One paper even ...
First, living alone or being alone in the daytime is widespread in developed regions with smaller family structure [62], increasing the chances of skipping meals as older people prefer not to eat alone [63, 64]. Second, older adults may skip meals because of financial constraints. A ...
Many older people are frail and live alone with limited access to medical care. Moreover, reduced vision, physical function, and manual dexterity [11], muscle alternations, [12] are some of the factors that inhibit their ability for foot self-care. Abdullah and Abbas [13] stated that nail...
It randomly selects sub-trees in each of two parent individuals and exchanges them. Reproduction: this operator returns a copy of the parent individual. Bloat control: common problem of increasingly larger programs in later generations of the evolutionary algorithm run is addressed by the static ...