Visioning
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Introduction
This chapter describes brief scenarios illustrating a vision of how technology could help, in the foreseeable future, to maintain independent, high-quality life for elders. Some of the technologies incorporated in these scenarios are already deployed in the field or in the laboratory, several are part of focus-advanced research and others need to be investigated. The described environment is focused on unobtrusive sensing and assessment and on minimally obtrusive interventions. The underlying algorithms incorporate the state of the art statistical pattern recognition and optimal decisions under uncertainty.
The reader may notice the unobtrusive and subtle way in which the system adapts to the elder’s values and preferences. The economic feasibility of the technology-based approach and clinical effectiveness require further research. In each case we have attempted to outline the gaps in current knowledge, technology development and policy that are preventing the full realisation of the scenarios as described.
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