Mobility Assistance for Older People

Promoting Mobility in Older People

Out-of-home mobility is necessary for accessing commodities, making use of neighborhood facilities, and participation in meaningful social, cultural, and physical activities. Mobility also promotes healthy aging as it relates to the basic human need of physical movement. Mobility is typically assessed either with standardized performance-based tests or with self-reports of perceived difficulty ...

The mobility of older people – An introduction

Predicting catastrophic decline in mobility among older people.

OBJECTIVE to investigate the associations between chronic health conditions, psychosocial and environmental factors and catastrophic decline in mobility among older people. DESIGN longitudinal cohort. SETTING national sample living in private households. PARTICIPANTS nine hundred and ninety-nine adults aged > or = 65 years at initial interview, of which 786 agreed to take part in a follow...

Learning-Based Adaptation for Personalized Mobility Assistance

Mobility assistance is of key importance for people with disabilities to remain autonomous in their preferred environments. In severe cases, assistance can be provided by robotized wheelchairs that can perform complex maneuvers and/or correct the user’s commands. User’s acceptance is of key importance, as some users do not like their commands to be modified. This work presents a solution to imp...

Intelligent monitoring for people assistance and safety

This expert systems special issue on ‘Intelligent Monitoring for People Assistance and Safety’ contains the revised and extended best papers dealing with different issues concerning people assistance and safety through intelligent monitoring and activity interpretation, presented at ‘IWINAC 2011: the fourth International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computatio...