The Caregiver Perspective: An Assistive AAL Platform

Abstract

The Ambient Assisted Living area has spawned several projects that aim to help the user on his/her daily activities. The AAL4ALL (ambient assisted living for all) project aims to develop a unified ecosystem using fully compatible devices and services. The UserAccess platform is part of the AAL4ALL and has as a goal to provide assistance to a type of actor that is commonly forgotten in the Ambient Assisted Living area, the caregiver. This paper presents the architecture, implementation, and interfaces, along with a brief analysis of caregiver's needs and work related issues.

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“…Caregiver, the person who attends the Elderly. According to [12] there are two types of caregivers, Formal and Informal caregivers. Doctors and nurses fall under category of formal care givers.…”

“…So the AAL4AAL has considered different caregivers perspectives and economy with UserAcces platform. The smart environment designed by [12] has capability to generate automated warnings, manages events and monitor environment. One Most distinguished feature of [12] is the UserAcces platform accessible in android based mobiles and web page formats.…”

“…The smart environment designed by [12] has capability to generate automated warnings, manages events and monitor environment. One Most distinguished feature of [12] is the UserAcces platform accessible in android based mobiles and web page formats. The information produced by AAL4AAL platform (a sensor warning or calendar update) is sent to the Information integration segment in UserAcces platform.…”

“…The approach of [13] is based on a combination of and service-oriented device architecture. The basic components of the system are Semantic service layer, the context manager, the composer and the procedural manager.…”

“…The service-oriented infrastructure is highly extensible where new system components can easily be added. For Communication purpose [13] used a new technology called as "The open-service gateway initiative" (OSGi). The most sticking feature of OSGi is operational reliability, remote access, inter-component communication and the complete service lifecycle.…”