Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 2826: IoT Wearable Sensors and Devices in Elderly Care: A Literature Review

Sensors, Vol. 20, Pages 2826: IoT Wearable Sensors and Devices in Elderly Care: A Literature Review Sensors doi: 10.3390/s20102826 Authors: Thanos G. Stavropoulos Asterios Papastergiou Lampros Mpaltadoros Spiros Nikolopoulos Ioannis Kompatsiaris The increasing ageing global population is causing an upsurge in ailments related to old age, primarily dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, frailty, Parkinson’s, and cardiovascular disease, but also a general need for general eldercare as well as active and healthy ageing. In turn, there is a need for constant monitoring and assistance, intervention, and support, causing a considerable financial and human burden on individuals and their caregivers. Interconnected sensing technology, such as IoT wearables and devices, present a promising solution for objective, reliable, and remote monitoring, assessment, and support through ambient assisted living. This paper presents a review of such solutions including both earlier review studies and individual case studies, rapidly evolving in the last decade. In doing so, it examines and categorizes them according to common aspects of interest such as health focus, from specific ailments to general eldercare; IoT technologies, from wearables to smart home sensors; aims, from assessment to fall detection and indoor positioning to intervention; and experimental evaluation participants duration and outcome measures, from acceptability to accuracy. Statistics ...
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