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Ageing In Older Adults

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The normal ageing process involves different types of alterations with repercussions on motor (e.g. less mobility), cognitive (e.g. attention capacity or short-term memory) or social (e.g. smaller social networks) capacities. These alterations influence per-ceived abilities, such as increasing difficulty of focusing on nearby objects or distin-guishing them in poorly lit environments or even less ability to perform multitasking [1]. Consequently, diverse barriers tend to hamper the daily lives of older people, in particular about decision-making, problem-solving or day-to-day planning. On the other hand, ageing is associated with many chronic diseases that influence the quality of older adults. All these circumstances have implications for …show more content…

Moreo-ver, many of the current health and social policies focus on providing products and services to compensate the declines of older adults, thus favouring the permanence in their homes. In this sense, ageing in place [2] reflects the idea that familiar environ-ments provide a sense of belonging not only to the family, but also to the communi-ty, strongly related to the notion of identity, security, familiarity and autonomy, which are essential variables for a healthy ageing [8]. This perspective also enforces the role of information technologies, which may help older adults in their homes (i.e. technologies for ageing in place [9]) to overcome multiple impairments, and to allow them to live safely, independently, autonomously and comfortably, with the neces-sary support services to their changing needs [2,10,11]. There are several reviews of reviews and meta-analyses related to technologies for ageing in place [12-16]. However, these reviews focus on specific technologies (e.g. short message services [12]), or specific pathologies (e.g. congestive heart failure [13]). Therefore, the broad analysis of the study reported in the present article is use-ful to inform older adults, practitioners and researchers about the state of the art of technologies for ageing in

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