Housing And Home Automation For The Elderly And Disabled

Author : David Gann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780903622738
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Housing and Home Automation for the Elderly and Disabled written by David Gann and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent research says that there is an urgent need for clearly defined policies and funding to address the housing needs of the elderly and disabled. This report examines the use of new technologies which can enable people with disabilities to live independently. The book says that such technology is already in production. Electronic control systems for household appliances, banking facilities, home shopping, and even telemedicine have enormous potential, but this potential is as yet unrealized. Neither the disabled users, nor the manufacturers are getting the full benefit of these inventions. One of the problems facing manufacturers stems from the diverse range of needs and installation environments. As a relatively new area of innovation, home automation systems have been developed independently of one another by a number of companies. The net result is that a wide range of services exist but there is a serious lack of flexibility and compatibility within and between these systems - making it difficult for installers to adapt equipment to the very specific needs of users.

Author : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Publisher : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780660166193
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Technology to Support Independent Living written by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and published by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. This book was released on 1996 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mounir Mokhtari
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586033804
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Independent Living for Persons with Disabilities and Elderly People written by Mounir Mokhtari and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at assistive technologies for people who have limited independence, and the concept of the smart home, where a user has several heterogeneous systems, providing multiple and complementary functionalities and forming a whole complex environment.

Author : Sylvain Giroux
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 9781586035310
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Smart Homes to Smart Care written by Sylvain Giroux and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays networks, microprocessors, memory chips, smart sensors and actuators are faster, cheaper and smaller than ever. They are becoming available anywhere, anytime. Current advances in such enabling technologies let foresee novel applications and services for improving the life of elderly and disabled people in their home and outside. These conference proceedings present the latest approaches and technical solutions in the area of smart homes, health telematics, and enabling technologies. The first chapter delves into the user perspective to ascertain real needs and design truly useful services. The following chapter explores the enabling technology. Distributed sensors, smart devices and networks appear as the nuts and bolts compulsory to build up smart homes. Chapter three looks at the realization of smart homes. Pervasive computing is emerging as one of the key approaches to organize computations within smart homes. The fourth chapter addresses the issue of using smart home features to design and deliver smart care services to persons with disabilities and elderly people. Finally Chapter five outlines standardization efforts and practical and industrial experiences. ICOST aims at creating an active research community dedicated to explore how smart homes in particular and health telematics in general can foster independent living and an enhanced life style for elderly and disabled people. On the one hand, smart homes are augmented environments with embedded computers, information appliances and multi-modal sensors allowing people to perform tasks efficiently by offering unprecedented levels of access to information and assistance from computer. On the other hand, health telematics makes the most of networks and telecommunications to propose health services, expertise and information at distance.

Author : Bessam Abdulrazak
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642215351
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities written by Bessam Abdulrazak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-17 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, held in Montreal, Canada, in June 2011. The 25 revised full papers presented together with 16 short papers and 8 student papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart home and village; health telematics and healthcare technology; wellbeing, ageing friendly and enabling technology; and medical health telematics and healthcare technology.

Author : C. Nugent
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607501783
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Homes and Beyond written by C. Nugent and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thought behind this publication is to continue to develop an active research community dedicated to explore how Smart Homes and Health Telematics can foster independent living and offer an enhanced quality of life for ageing and disabled people. As we begin to witness the effects of changing demographics on today’s society we begin to appreciate that the increase in the number of elderly and in the prevalence of those suffering from chronic disease and disabilities are likely to further increase in the next two to three decades. To react to the needs of this cohort to provide an environment within which the people can reside for as long as possible, whilst maintaining their quality of life and independence, is a widespread concern for all. As such, there is real benefit to further investigate the role of technologies to address these changes and subsequently offer practical solutions to support independent living. The editors feel that within the realms of Smart Homes and Health Telematics real, affordable and useful services can be developed which will have the necessary underlying technological and service delivery infrastructures to allow seamless integration into existing care delivery paradigms. The introduction of technology can provide a positive impact. However, it is necessary to avoid any detrimental effects if reliance upon technology within the home environment becomes so great that people will not leave their own home in fear of losing the support once outside of the home, or its close proximity. This publication focuses on promoting personal autonomy and extending the quality of life by considering including smart services inside and outside of the home.

Author : Mark Pragnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781842630105
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Market Potential for Smart Homes written by Mark Pragnell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart Home technology offers the prospect of significant improvements in the living standards for elderly and disabled people who are heavily reliant on home care. However, the benefits of home automation for this group can only be realised if a broader consumer market develops, improving both availability and affordability of technology.

Author : Gerardus Blokdyk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780655123392
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home automation for the elderly and disabled A Clear and Concise Reference written by Gerardus Blokdyk and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Seyed Shahrestani
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319601644
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Internet of Things and Smart Environments written by Seyed Shahrestani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) services and smart environments that can be of assistance to the elderly and individuals living with dementia or some sensory impairment. The book outlines the requirements of the systems that aim to furnish some digital sensory or cognitive assistance to the individuals and their caregivers. Internet of Things and Smart Environments: Assistive Technologies for Disability, Dementia, and Aging covers the important evolutions of the IoT, the sensors, actuators, wireless communication and pervasive computing systems, and other enabling technologies that power up this megatrend infrastructure. The use of the IoT-based systems in improving the conventional assistive technologies and provisions of ambient assisted living are also covered. The book takes an impartial, and yet holistic, view to providing research insights and inspirations for more development works in the areas related to assistive IoT. It will show the potentials of using normally available interactive devices, like smartphones or smart TVs, which can be supplemented with low-cost gadgets or apps to provide assistive capabilities. It aims to accentuate the need for taking a comprehensive and combinatory view of the comprising topics and approaches that are based on the visions and ideas from all stakeholders. The book will examine these points and considerations to conclude with recommendations for future development works and research directions. This book can be of value to a diverse array of audience. The researchers and developers in healthcare and medicine, aged care and disability services, as well as those working in the IoT-related fields, may find many parts of this book useful and stimulating. It can be of great value to postgraduate and research students working in these areas. It can also be adapted for use in upper-level classroom courses relevant to communication and smart technologies, IoT applications, and assistive technologies. Many parts of the book can be of interest to the elderly and individuals living with a disability, as well as their families and caregivers. From an industry perspective, it can be of interest to software, hardware, and particularly app developers working on the IoT applications, smart homes and environments, and assistive technologies for the elderly and people living with disability or dementia.

Author : David G. Robson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 041923120X
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homes for the Third Age written by David G. Robson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a design guide to housing for the elderly which provides generic plans for independent dwelling units, and examines the commissioning, designing, buildings and running of sheltered housing.