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Pervasive healthcare aims for a decentralized, preventive, and assistive approach to healthcare. Recognizing their merits, many authors have proposed systems based on this approach; some include theoretical proposals and architectural designs, while others have implemented real working systems. Most systems are tested in controlled laboratory conditions, and just a few of them in real-setting scenarios.
For three years now, we have been using a system that assists caregivers in performing their duties at a geriatric residence. In this paper, we report the lessons learned with this system, during a period spanning the requirements gathering, design, implementation, maintenance, update and continuous running phases. This report tries to fill a void in the literature for real-life experiences that can be taken into account when designing and implementing pervasive healthcare systems to be installed in real settings.
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Soto-Mendoza, V., Garcia-Macias, J.A. (2014). Lessons Learned from a Long-Running Assistive System for Geriatric Care. In: Pecchia, L., Chen, L.L., Nugent, C., Bravo, J. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities. IWAAL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8868. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_13
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