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Ambient assisted living technologies to support older adults’ health and wellness: a systematic mapp
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Abstract
While the proportion of the Older Adults (OAs) population is growing, this shift rais-es a challenging question: “How can we support OAs to lead independent and healthy lifestyle?”. Many researchers have been studying Ambient Assisted Living Technologies (or AALTs) over the last three decades to tackle this challenge. How-ever, no literature can provide an overall view of research in the field of AALTs and linkages be-tween technical development and related health-care needs. Thus, we conducted a systematic mapping review of literature focusing on AALTs (N = 7006) to explore three main research ques-tions: 1) When, where, and how AALTs are stud-ied?; 2) What is the technological maturity lev-el of AALTs used to support a health and well-ness, and where were they evaluated and/or im-plemented?; and 3) To which health and wellness purposes are AALTs deployed? We found sever-al noticeable imbalances in literature and identi-fied some strategies to move this field of inves-tigation further and to bring AALTs applications closer to clinical practice. While research in the area is gradually blossoming, the area mainly leads in only a few countries. Furthermore, the majority of research targeted asymptomatic old-er adults living at home. We hope this paper will help researchers easily understand what type of research, with whom, and where are available in AALT now. Potential challenges associated with AALTs research are also discussed.
Citation
Choukou, M. A., Polyvyana, A., Sakamoto, Y., & Osterreicher, A. (2021). Ambient assisted living technologies to support older adults’ health and wellness: a systematic mapping review. European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 25(12), 4289-4307.
Bibtext Entry
@article{choukou2021ambient,
title={Ambient assisted living technologies to support older adults’ health and wellness: a systematic mapping review},
author={Choukou, MA and Polyvyana, A and Sakamoto, Y and Osterreicher, A},
journal={European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences},
volume={25},
number={12},
pages={4289--4307},
year={2021}
}