Ambient Assisted Living Technologies for Aging Well: A Scoping Review
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Ambient assisted living (AAL) technology is of considerable interest in supporting the independence and quality of life of older adults. As such, it is a core focus of the emerging field of gerontechnology, which considers how technological innovation can aid health and well-being in older age. For this scoping review, a comprehensive search of databases and key journals was conducted from January to April of 2013 in order to identify AAL technologies that have the potential to help deal with some of the challenges associated with aging. In particular, we focused on technologies that could potentially be used by people living with some degree of cognitive impairment, ranging from normal cognitive aging to mild cognitive impairment up to earlier stages of dementia. Options currently available and those still under development were both included in our search. Fifty-nine technologies were identified and are outlined here, along with a discussion of history of AAL from a gerontological perspective and related theoretical considerations.
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- Authors
- Blackman, S., Matlo, C., Bobrovitskiy, C., Waldoch, A., Fang, M. L., Jackson, P., Mihailidis, A., Nygård, L., Astell, A., & Sixsmith, A.
- Affiliations
- Dalhousie Family Medicine, 5909 Veterans Memorial Lane, Abbie J. Lane Building, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 2E2
- Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, 800 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 1Y1
- Baptist Housing, 125-6165 Highway 17A, Delta, BC, Canada V4K 5B8
- Simon Fraser University (CA)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Jackson, Piper
- Venue
- Journal of Intelligent Systems
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2015-03-14
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 55-69
- ISSN
- 0334-1860 (ISSN-L)
- 2191-026X
- OpenAlex
- W2043405049
- Cited by
- 269
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 37 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 31.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Intelligent Systems (publishedVersion)
- Discovery Research Portal (University of Dundee) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council (ES/K011138/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Assistive Technology in Communication and Mobility
- Keywords
- ambient assisted living, gerontechnology, older adults, successful aging, cognitive impairment, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, quality of life, assistive technology
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