Strategy for the Development of Assistive Environments Based on Geriatric Assessment

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Strategy for the Development of Assistive Environments Based on Geriatric Assessment Thomas Linner, Nora Eibisch, Thomas Bock Pages 659-664 (2011 Proceedings of the 28th ISARC, Seoul, Korea, ISBN 978-89-954572-4-5, ISSN 2413-5844) Abstract: In this paper we present a systematic method for the development of assistive environments based on geriatric assessment. The method is based on the assumption, that geriatric assessment can be used to describe scenarios and peoples individual skills and disabilities. To counterbalance disabilities and disorders and to bring people back to a state of skills which allows them to live self-sustained at home, sets of assistance methods and assistance technologies are bundled to form a distinctively planned living environment. In a first step a typology is defined, which is assumed to suit best for ascertain use case, secondly the typology is upgraded with useful functionalities from other typologies. In a third step the thus defined basic system is customized further through the integration of various active and passive subsystems. Keywords: Demografic Change, Geriatric Assessment, Service Robotics DOI: https://doi.org/10.22260/ISARC2011/0123 Download fulltext Download BibTex Download Endnote (RIS) TeX Import to Mendeley