Abstract
Elderly people constitute a major portion of world's population. Many of them are physically and mentally vulnerable and need continuous support for their health and well-being. There is a growing trend that these elderly people are placed in an ambient assisted living environment (AAL) with an aim to receive better care and support. In such settings, a lot of attention has been given to continuous health monitoring for maintaining physical health status. However, much less attention has been given toward understanding the entertainment needs of the elderly people, which is an important factor relevant to their mental health and joyful living. This paper thus addresses the entertainment needs of the elderly and proposes a framework of an elderly entertainment support system. The proposed framework enables different categories of residents (e.g., elderly people and caregivers) to access various media services in both implicit and explicit manner in order to enhance the quality of their living experience in different contexts. Our experimental results demonstrate the viability of the proposed framework. We believe that the proposed approach will establish the need to develop entertainment systems and services for the elderly people and allow us to sensibly address the problems associated with their independent, happy and active living.
Highlights
The rapid increase of a worldwide elderly population puts a huge burden on current health and social systems
ambient assisted living environment (AAL) environments, much efforts have been given toward issues of physical health monitoring, other important issues such as the study of entertainment needs for the elderly people has got less attention [3,4]
Research has shown that the entertainment needs of the elderly people is important for their well-being and joyful living [5]
Summary
The rapid increase of a worldwide elderly population puts a huge burden on current health and social systems. A lot of attention has been vested to find novel mechanisms, services and solutions for addressing the health and well-being issues of this elderly population Many of these elderly people are placed in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environments that embed myriad sensors, devices and services to monitor them and provide them relevant and timely services [1,2]. The authors in [9,10] studied elderly users’ requirements to provide them ICT-based health and care services, including entertainment and information access. Other existing works focus on elderly monitoring from different perspectives, which include robotic assistance [11,12], reminding service [13], information access [14,15], health monitoring [16,17,18], and so on.
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