Smart-Home Technologies to Assist Older People to Live Well at Home
Arooke Adair Kimberly Miller · Journal of Aging Science · 2013
Smart homes are purpose designed living spaces that provide interactive technologies and unobtrusive support systems to enable people to enjoy a higher level of independence, activity, participation or well-being than otherwise afforded [9,10].The smart homes movement links together the fields of housing, technology, engineering, sociology, and healthcare in relation to robotics, sensors, tele-health, ergonomics, communications, social care and safety [11,12].Home based smart technologies can sometimes enable people to live in their own home