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Nocturnal Sensing and Intervention for Assisted Living of People with Dementia

Paul J. McCullagh, William M.A. Carswell, Maurice D. Mulvenna, Juan C. Augusto, Huiru Zheng, and W. Paul Jeffers

CONTENTS

Introduction

Overview of Sensing in Healthcare

Peculiarities of Nocturnal Sensing and Interventions

NOCTURNAL Sensing/Intervention Platform

Addressing User Acceptance

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

Introduction

Research on ambient assistive living (AAL) technologies is capturing significant attention from the scientific community and attracting investment from relevant areas of public services like the healthcare sector and government. Much of that research has focused on the idea of the smart home as an extension of social ...

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