Abstract
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 routine of the elderly and combine it with other relevant information (e.g., biosignals, physical activity, social activity, nutrition) to help identify early signs of decline. Caregivers and elders use this information to improve their routine, focusing on improving the current condition. With that in mind, we have developed a software platform to support My-AHA, which is composed of a multi-platform middleware, a decision support system (DSS), and a dashboard. The middleware seamlessly merges data coming from multiple platforms targeting health and active ageing, the DSS performs an intelligent computation on top of the collected data, and the dashboard provides a user’s interaction with the whole system. To show the potential of the proposed My-AHA software platform, we introduce the My Personal Dashboard web-based application over a frailty use case to illustrate how senior well-being can benefit from the use of technology.
Highlights
As the population ages, it is rather vital to guarantee solutions for healthy and active ageing [1,2].One can come across different solutions focused on the well-being of the senior population [3,4,5,6].The main goal of such solutions is to gather data about the daily routine of the elderly to produce relevant information about how they live and how their choices affect their ageing
My-active and healthy ageing (My-AHA) proposal differs from the analysed works as, besides having all the mentioned characteristics, it provides a Java Software Development Kit (SDK) to enable smooth and seamless integration of external entities with our proposed software platform speeding up this integration process. Another unique feature is the provision of methods that allow post-processing of measurements, even from external entities. Such methods allow the integration of systems such as the advanced decision support system (DSS) with functionalities to allow early frailty risk detection and intervention and a platform targeted to the interface with the users which offers a dashboard where they can interact with the system in a simplified way
The main outcome of My-AHA Living Labs is that the combination of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) plus social activities is key for older adults
Summary
It is rather vital to guarantee solutions for healthy and active ageing [1,2]. These solutions have very specific purposes, such as monitoring and providing feedback on nutrition, cognitive function, social interaction, sleep, psychological state, physical activity, to name a few This explains why these solutions are focused on integrating specific sensors (or set thereof), and sometimes are more concerned with data acquisition than providing a solution that is less stigmatising to the already sensitive target population, i.e., seniors. The proposed solution focuses on identifying and mitigating early signs of decline considering data from non-stigmatising wearable sensors and from the environments where older adults live It targets the monitoring of senior health and offers a means to support disease prevention by considering the individualised profiling of users with personalised recommendations, feedback, and support. Development of a multi-platform middleware that seamlessly integrates health and ageing solutions to harvest data and post-process it into information to provide support for early detection of decline in different domains (e.g., psychological, physical, cognitive, social).
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