Assistive Technology for Elderly Care: An Overview
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چکیده
Global demographic changes have resulted in a growing technological demand to meet the arisen social needs. In particular, increasingly ageing population requires assistive technologies stay at home for longer independently while receiving continuous healthcare. this sense, wide academic and industrial research is taking place, introducing these hospitals rehabilitation centres. This paper aims providing an overview of projects elderly care assistance, focusing on cognitive robot assistants due their popularity area. More precisely, physical and/or are presented. also discusses limitations open challenges be tackled order successfully integrated our society.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Access
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2169-3536']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2021.3092407