Chapter 5
Leveraging Big Data Analytics for Personalized Elderly Care
Opportunities and Challenges
Obinna Anya1, and Hissam Tawfik2 1IBM Research – Almaden, San Jose, CA, USA 2Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University, UKE-mail: obanya@us.ibm.com, tawfikh@hope.ac.uk
Abstract
Owing to the growing increase in the world’s ageing population, research has focused on developing information and communication technology (ICT)–based services for personalized care, improved health, and quality social life for the elderly. Recent efforts explore Big Data in order to build mathematical models of personal behavior and lifestyle for analytics. Leveraging Big Data analytics holds enormous potential for solving some of the ...
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