Browsing by Subject "AGEING"
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Addressing Ethical Issues in the Design of Patient & Caregiver Monitoring Technology in Aged Care Settings
(Nova Publishers, 2020)The monitoring and evaluation of patient health and wellbeing, along with the quality of care delivery is critical to patient safety. The aged care sector has faced many scandals about the quality of aged care services. ... -
Advanced Assistive Technologies for Elderly People: A Psychological Perspective on Seniors' Needs and Preferences (part A)
(2020)This paper provides an overview of the literature concerning Seniors’ psychological perspective in exploiting assistive robots and the embodied conversational agents. The main theoretical models devoted to assess user’s ... -
Aspects of linguistic ageing in literary authors across time
(2021)This work offers an investigation into linguistic changes in a corpus of literary authors hypothesised to be possibly attributable to the effects of ageing. In part, the analysis replicates an earlier study into these ... -
Can soap films be used as models for mortality studies?
(2018)We report studies of the life expectancy of sets of parallel liquid films made from surfactant solution and contained in cylindrical perspex tubes. The tubes are sealed at the bottom and vertically placed. From our analysis ... -
The Design of New Technologies Addressing Independence, Social Participation &Wellness for Older People Domicile in Residential Homes
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Developing Sustainable, Country-Specific Business Models for a Digital Healthy Aging Self-Management Innovation
(2018)Many promising Digital Health Innovations do not make it to the market, as sustainable Business Models are difficult to find. This paper aims to show how sustainable and country-specific business models can be ... -
Driver Persistence, Safety and Older Adult Self-efficacy: Addressing Driving Challenges Using Innovative Multimodal Communication Concepts
(Springer, Cham, 2020)New assisted driving technology provides a solution to enabling driver persistence while also addressing older adult fitness to drive issues. The proposed driver assistance system follows a detailed literature review, an ... -
Effect of immunology biomarkers associated with hip fracture and fracture risk in older adults
(2023)Osteoporosis is a skeletal disease that can increase the risk of fractures, leading to adverse health and socioeconomic consequences. However, current clinical methods have limitations in accurately estimating fracture ... -
Exploring how multimorbidity care is managed for an older Irish patient population within clinician networks: Preliminary findings from an SNA survey
(2017)Studies focusing on managing care for people with multimorbidity show: – Health Service Utilisation: Long-term Use; Multiple Services at Same Time; Community Dwelling Ageing Cohort – Health Service Integration: Difficulty ... -
Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex
(2016)The two hemispheres of the human brain differ functionally and structurally. Despite over a century of research, the extent to which brain asymmetry is influenced by sex, handedness, age, and genetic factors is still ... -
The Importance of Age in the Prediction of Mortality by a Frailty Index: A Machine Learning Approach in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
(2021)The quantification of biological age in humans is an important scientific endeavor in the face of ageing populations. The frailty index (FI) methodology is based on the accumulation of health deficits and captures variations ... -
Interrupting Bedtime to Reverse Frailty Levels in Acute Care: A Study Protocol for the Breaking Bad Rest Randomized Controlled Trial
(2023)Background Hospitalized older patients spend most of the waking hours in bed, even if they can walk independently. Excessive bedrest contributes to the development of frailty and worse hospital outcomes. We describe the ... -
Investigating the needs and concerns of older adults with multimorbidity and their healthcare professionals for conceivable digital psychotherapeutic interventions
(2022)Multimorbidity, defined as the concurrent experience of more than one chronic health condition in an individual, affects ∼65% of people over 65 and 85% of those over 85 years old with 30% of those also experiencing mental ... -
IoT/Sensor-Based Infrastructures Promoting a Sense of Home, Independent Living, Comfort and Wellness
(2019)This paper presents the results of three interrelated studies concerning the specification and implementation of ambient assisted living (AAL)/Internet of Things (IoT)/sensor-based infrastructures, to support resident ... -
Is phenotypical prefrailty all the same? A longitudinal investigation of two prefrailty subtypes in TILDA
(2019)Background: Fried's frailty phenotype is defined by five criteria: exhaustion, unexplained weight loss, weakness, slowness and low physical activity. Prefrailty (PF) meets one or two criteria. PF is of interest as a target ...