Deployment of assistive living technology in a nursing home environment: Methods and lessons learned

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Aloulou, Hamdi ^a,b   Mokhtari, Mounir ^a,b,c   Tiberghien, Thibaut ^a,b   Biswas, Jit ^d   Phua, Clifton ^d   Kenneth Lin, Jin Hong ^d   Yap, Philip ^e  

^a 21 01 Connexis South Tower   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUT MINES TELECOM   (France)

^c LIRMM   (France)

^d INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^e KHOO TECK PUAT HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Ambient assistive living; Context aware services; Dementia assistance; Dynamic and adaptable systems; Real life deployment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY; DEMENTIA; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; NURSING HOME; SELF HELP; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES; DEMENTIA; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; NURSING HOMES; SELF-HELP DEVICES;

EID: 84875850100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-42     Document Type: Article

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