Smart homes for the older population: particularly important during the COVID-19 outbreak

Karolina Gawrońska; Jacek Lorkowski

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Smart homes for the older population: particularly important during the COVID-19 outbreak

Karolina Gawrońska

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Jacek Lorkowski

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Rehabilitation Centre of the Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs and Administration in Warsaw, Poland
Clinical Department of Orthopaedics, Traumatology and Sports Medicine of the Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of the Internal Affairs and Administration in Warsaw, Poland
Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Mazovia, Warsaw, Poland

Online publish date: 2021/09/08

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Osteoporosis, one of the leading causes of disability in older adults, significantly reduces the quality of life and leads to loss of independence. Dynamic development of “smart” solutions based on artificial intelligence more and more commonly applied in older people’s houses may be an answer to the above issues.

The aim of this study is to present selected “smart home” solutions for the diagnosis and prevention of falls in the older population through a literature review. The conducted meta-analysis based on a review of the scientific literature available in English and Polish in the Medline/PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and GBL databases was undertaken from 01.01.2015 to 01.10.2020 with the string search method using key words.

According to the authors of this study, the development of new technology based on artificial intelligence allows older people to live independently, which contributes to a higher level of life satisfaction and quality.

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Smart homes for the older population: particularly important during the COVID-19 outbreak

Karolina Gawrońska 1 , Jacek Lorkowski 2, 3

fall prevention, artificially intelligent home monitoring, innovative assisted living tools, home hazards

Karolina Gawrońska

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Jacek Lorkowski

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