Improving The Life Of Elderly People With Home Automation

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are made up of tiny sensing devices; capable of sensing some changes of incident/parameters and communicating with other devices, over a specific area. Mainly used for tracking, surveillance and environmental monitoring. These devices make it possible to be used in a system such as Home Automation and Security. Our purpose is to make our Home secure from any attacks physically and to the sensor network. Securing our Home starts from the outside, setting up a perimeter around house sensing intrusion and alerting the home owner. Allowing only predetermined users to enter the home. From the inside you can monitor for fires, leak, humidity or smoke, which the system will promptly report this to the owner as well as alert the proper authorities. Making most of the home voice controlled only recognized by the owner’s voice can add another layer of security.

The human service profession involves various obstacles to overcome when working with a variety of clients. Obstacles are seen in all phases of human services in areas providing services, planning programs, and funding troubles. However, the elimination of some of these barriers can be done with the use of proper technology. Providing services to the aging population can be challenging, when providing services to this particular group because of the rising elderly population needing help and the decline of mental and physical aging individual. The following sections of this assignment will attempt to identify some of the technological applications that can be of use to overcome these barriers.

Cutting edge technology like household sensors grow to learn the habits of a senior to ensure they are doing well. If the system doesn’t register the senior moving from their bedroom at a certain hour or other daily routines, an alert will go out to notify proper responders. In other areas of need, Selfhelp understands the importance of interaction. That’s why their Senior Source technology transports seniors into classrooms and activities with skilled teachers and other seniors. By doing so, everyone is able to socialize and think

This paper will address aging population in Canada and the strain this will have on our healthcare system. The aging population will bring with it an increase in chronic conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, dementia, and heart disease. These are complex conditions that the healthcare system is currently not prepared to handle due to the lack of home health supports. This issue is important for the nursing profession because as the population ages, people have more chronic conditions and corresponding need for hospitalization and medical care. Canada’s aging population is not sustainable in our current healthcare system as there is a lack of homecare and health promotion.

Succinctly summarize the author’s argument and how the social issue/problem is defined by the author; In this op-ed the authors argue the impact families in caring for their elderly verses the governmental influents that are imposed “families, not Government agencies, provide most services and care for the elderly. For every institutionalized senior citizen, there are at least two equally disabled elderly people receiving care at home.(Smyer&Plantz)” It is in the author’s opinion that elderly citizens should be given that choice to decide on where they want to spend the remainder of their years, the author also stress that most elderly prefer to remain in the care of someone they trust; such as family, close friends, neighbors, or

By 2050, the number of Americans sixty-five and older is going to double, to more than eighty million. Moreover, research found that almost ninety percent of Americans, including those older than seventy, want to age in place for at least the next five to ten years of their lives. As the American population ages, and as the digital health field expands, technologies addressing the unique challenges of aging in place will become more of a reality. Great strides already have been made to improve aging. Seniors who want to age in place need to be as independent as possible. Technical innovations for successful aging offer opportunities both for older people and for societies with growing numbers of old and very old people.

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an emerging field that had attracted global interest, both in academia and industry, for the potential of its solutions, namely for the health and social care sectors.

CareKit Health Hamilton, Ontario is a private company that supports the complete clinical and family care team to provide a high quality care with reducing cost, and ensuring timely interventions by its highly approachable mobile application that leverages the mobile technology. To complement the healthcare platform, the company has started a project named “CareKit Health Technology Prototype” that demonstrates the development of technology prototype for home care use. CareKit Health’s technology prototype is all about making a system prototype that is one of the ways for conducting Rapid Application Development (RAD). RAD is a collection of methodologies that incorporate special techniques and computer tools to speed up the analysis, design, and implementation phases in order to get some portion of the system development quickly into the hands of users for evaluation and feedback (Dennis, A. et al, 2012)

The Gator Tech smart house at the University of Florida is a laboratory-house created to assist older adults in maximizing independence and maintaining higher quality of life. The entire house is equipped with (a) smart cameras for motion detection, image processing, and control of other in-home devices, (b) smart blinds that automatically close to block sunlight when the air conditioner is on, (c) ultrasonic location tracking transceivers that are installed on the ceiling corners of each room to detect movement, location, and orientation of the resident, (d) smart floor that uses pressure sensors embedded into each tile to detect falls and reports to emergency services, and (f) smart displays for entertainment media and information residents

There are many challenges that older adults who want to age in place come upon. To overcome those challenges, new and advanced technologies are required that will help maintain independence, dignity and home care. Assisted living technologies (ALTs) play an important role. There are two types of ALTs: Home and Environmental Modifications and Telemedicine and Telecare (Graybill, McMeekin & Wildman, 2014).

Dementia describes a decline in mental ability. Alzheimer disease, which damages brain cells, is the major cause of dementia. It is estimated that around 850,000 people in UK developed dementia in 2015. The risks of developing dementia will increase by the comprehensive contributions of aging, risk genes, and unhealthy lifestyles. However, the medical treatments fails to cure dementia effectively for the mechanics of how dementia is developed is too complicated to identify. Therefore, present research on dementia treatments mainly concentrates on technological devices to help people with dementia. In this report, three technological approaches (the early diagnosis in preventing people from dementia, infrared movement sensors to help taking care of people with dementia, and integrated smart house are introduced and the limitations future implications of these technologies are discussed.

Everyone on this universe deserves to live in peace and dignity, including elder people. Regardless of inabilities to social and economic contribution, an elder person deserves protection and interventions to stop abuse when it occurs (Brandl et al., 2006, p. 4). Due to increased number of reported cases of elder abuse and speculation in the media, it has turned the heads up of the policy makers and health professionals to address this issue. Therefore, the focus of this paper is to debate if it is appropriate enough to use cameras to monitor care of elder people, particularly in nursing homes. Through exploring different perspectives towards the issue and evaluating the information provided.

Overall throughout the article “Really Smart Homes” in This Old House magazine, John Patrick Pullen does an outstanding job at having his article organized purposefully so I gave him full credit on the organization aspect of his article. He has pictures arrange in a strategic way to keep the eye interested, has the article sectioned off so readers are able to read the section of want to read about sooner, he keeps all of the paragraphs to the point to help the readers understand and want to read more, and he connects all of the sections main point or parts back to the main thesis of, “There are a lot of choices these days in the way of connected devices designed to save time and money around the house” (Pullen 55).

Our interactive caregiving approach is designed to improve the quality of life for seniors at Comfort Keepers. Through interaction, personal care, housekeeping and companionship, we provide seniors with the tools they need to live independently and comfortably. For seniors at Comfort Keepers, the benefits of interactive caregiving are significant. From healthier minds to physical fitness, we can help seniors attain the interaction and comfort level that they need.

With the click of a button or a tap on a screen, you can discover profound knowledge, it navigates you to where you need to go, or it even tells you miscellaneous things such as which place to go to get the best pumpkin spice latte. The Internet of things has significantly impacted everyday lives and continues to develop throughout generations. It refers to pertinent things such as the ever-growing networks of everyday physical objects, and other internet-enabled systems and devices which process and analyze large and fast-moving data set along each other. To sum it up, the internet of things is a fast growing network of materials where everything is synced and can collect as well as exchange data using sensors that are embedded in devices. Although individuals believe that the Internet of Things (IoT) consequently, will strip every one of privacy and security, the internet of things ought to be utilized in society as it positively transforms the way you live and relate to our environment to make it more productive and useful for us.