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From Ambient Assisted Living to Active and Assisted Living: A Practical Perspective on Experiences and Approaches

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AAL is a promising field of research for the last 10–15 years. As a topic, AAL has moved its focus from Ambient Assisted Living to Active and Assisted Living and is still moving to new directions. Under this perspective, the author summarizes experiences from projects like my-AHA (H2020) or AHEAD (AAL JP), SOFTCARE (AAL JP) etc. to provide a practical image and gives an overview of theoretical models in health care, data collection, measurements and methodological aspects on work with the elderly.

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Aumayr, G. (2016). From Ambient Assisted Living to Active and Assisted Living: A Practical Perspective on Experiences and Approaches. In: Piętka, E., Badura, P., Kawa, J., Wieclawek, W. (eds) Information Technologies in Medicine. ITiB 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 472. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39904-1_1

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