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Increasing an individual’s quality of life via their intelligent home
The hypothesis of this project is: can an individual?s quality of life be incread by integrating “intelligent technology” into their home environment. This hypothesis is very broad, and hence the rearchers will investigate it with regard to various, potentially over-lapping, sub-ctions of the population. In particular, the project will focus on sub-ctions with health-care needs, becau it is believed that the sub-ctions will receive the greatest benefit from this enhanced approach to housing. Two rearch questions flow from this hypothesis: what are the health-care issues that could be improved via “intelligent housing”, and what are the technological issues needing to be solved to allow “intelligent housing” to be constructed? While a small number of initiatives exist, outside Canada, which claim to investigate this area, none has the global vision of this area. Work tends to be in small areas with only a limited idea of how the individual pieces contribute towards a greater goal. This project has a very strong n of what it is trying to attempt, and believe
幻城插曲s that without this global direction the other initiatives will fail to address the large important issues described within various parts of this proposal, and that with the correct global direction the sum of the parts will produce much greater rewards than the individual components. This new field has many parallels with the field of business process engineering, where many products fail due to only considering a sub-t of the issues, typically the technology subt. Successful projects and implementations only started flow when people started to realize that a holistic approach was esntial. This holistic requirement also applies to the field of “smart housing”; if we genuinely want it to have benefit to the community rather than just technological interest. Having said this, much of the work outlined below is extremely important and contains a great deal of novelty within their individual topics.
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Health-Care and Supportive housing:
To date, there has been little coordinated rearch on how “smart hou” technologies can assist frail niors in remaining at home, and/or reduce the costs experienced by thei
r informal caregivers. Thus, the purpo of the propod rearch is to determine the ufulness of a variety of residential technologies in helping niors maintain their independence and in helping caregivers sustain their caring
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The overall design of the rearch is to focus on two groups of niors. The first is niors who are being discharged from an acute care tting with the potential for reduced ability to remain independent. An example is niors who have had hip replacement surgery. This group may benefit from technologies that would help them become adapted to their reduced mobility. The cond is niors who have a chronic health problem such as dementia and who are receiving assistance from an informal caregiver living at a distance. Informal caregivers living at a distance from the cared-for nior are at high risk of caregiver burnout. Monitoring the cared-for nior for health and safety is one of the important tasks done by such caregivers. Devices such as floor nsors (to determine whether the nior has fallen) and access controls to ensure safety
from intruders or to indicate elopement by a nior with dementia could reduce caregiver time spent commuting to monitor the nior.
For both samples, trials would consist of extended periods of residence within the „smart hou?. Samples of niors being discharged from acute care would be recruited from acute care hospitals. Samples of niors being cared for by informal caregivers at a distance could be recruited through dementia diagnosis clinics or through request from caregivers for respite.
残奥会冠军Limited amounts of clinical and health rvice rearch has been conducted upon niors (with complex health problems) in controlled environments such as that reprented by the “smart hou”. For example, it is known that night vision of the
aged is poor but there is very little information regarding the optimum level of lighting after wakening or for night activities. Falling is a major issue for older persons; and it results in injuries, disabilities and additional health care costs. For tho with dementing illness, safety is the key issue during performance of the activities of daily living (ADL).
It is vital for us to be able to monitor where patients would fall during ADL. Patients and caregivers activities would be monitored and data will be collected in the following conditions.
Projects would concentrate on sub-populations, with a view to collecting scientific data about their conditions and the impact of technology upon their life styles. For example:
Persons with stable chronic disability following a stroke and their caregivers: to rearch optimum models, types and location of various nsors for such patients (the patients may have neglect, hemiplegia, aphasia and judgment problems); to rearch pattern of movements during the ambulation, u of wheel chairs or canes on various type of floor material; to rearch caregivers support through e-health technology; to monitor frequencies and location of the falls; to evaluate the value of smart appliances for stroke patients and caregivers; to evaluate information and communication technology t up for Tele-homecare; to evaluate technology interface for Tele-homecare staff and clients; to evaluate the most effective way of lighting the various part of the hou; to modify or dev
elop new technology to enhance comfort and convenience of stroke patients and caregivers; to evaluate the value of surveillance systems in assisting caregivers.
Persons with Alzheimer?s dia and their caregivers: to evaluate the effect of
smart hou (unfamiliar environment) on their ability to conduct lf-care with and without prompting; to evaluate their ability to u unfamiliar equipment in the smart hou; to evaluate and monitor persons with Alzheimer?s dia movement pattern;
to evaluate and monitor falls or wandering; to evaluate the type and model of nsors to monitor patients; to evaluate the effect of wall color for patients and care givers; to evaluate the value of proper lighting.
Technology - Ubiquitous Computing:
The ubiquitous computing infrastructure is viewed as the backbone of the “intelligence” within the hou. In common with all ubiquitous computing systems, the primary components with this system will be: the array of nsors, the communication infrastructu小儿鸡内金散
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re and the software control (bad upon software agents) infrastructure. Again, it is considered esntial that this topic is investigated holistically.
