State of the Art Report for Smart Habitat for Older Persons -- Working Group 3 -- Healthcare

TL;DR

This report summarizes the current state of research and practice in smart habitats, ICT, and healthcare for older persons, highlighting advances, products, and success stories from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Contribution

It compiles and assesses recent developments across three domains related to smart and healthy aging at home, serving as a foundational resource for future integrated solutions.

Findings

Assessment of advances in smart furniture and habitats

Compilation of success stories and industry products

Identification of research gaps in smart aging technologies

Abstract

This document reports the State of the Art of science and practice on three topics related to smart and healthy ageing at home: furniture and habitats, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and healthcare. The reports were prepared by the working groups of COST Action CA16226, Sheld-on. Sheld-on is a network of researchers, user representatives, industry members, and other stakeholders. The three domains covered in this report were the areas of interest for three working groups from the COST Action. The aim of each working group was to assess the State of the Art for disciplinary understanding, identification of advances in smart furniture and habitat, products, industries and success stories. The findings on these topics of all working groups are compiled here. Due to the different backgrounds of the members of each of the working groups, the document is divided in three separate parts that can be considered as separate State of the Art reports. The goal of this document is to be used as input in the fourth working group of Sheld-on COST Action: Solutions for Ageing Well at Home, in the Community, and at Work, where experts from the three different domains converge to a single working group in order to achieve the action objectives.