Abstract

Smart Built-Environments for People Living with Dementia

Highlights

  • Ageing population is a world-wide rapidly growing phenomena [1,2]

  • Advances in the area of civil engineering, smart builtenvironments [3]. robotics and autonomous sensing systems [4,5,6,7,8] are driving the development of the in-home smart technological solutions for the aged population

  • A major issue is the low adoption of robotics technology by health and social housing because of many factors, including that the technology is often incompatible with the personalised demands of the resident and the technology is not yet affordable for an average consumer

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Ageing population is a world-wide rapidly growing phenomena [1,2]. Increased longevity is often associated with susceptibility to diseases which lead to cognitive or physical decline of human body. Robotics and autonomous sensing systems [4,5,6,7,8] are driving the development of the in-home smart technological solutions for the aged population. The hallmark of dementia is the severe memory loss, and decline in the cognitive abilities, which imply that people with dementia would not be able to interact with the technology at their homes. The vision of this mini paper is that it should be possible to make autonomous sensing embedded in civil works design, while completely invisible to the users, users are not required to interact with such robotic devices directly.

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