TY - JOUR
T1 - Care Services Ecosystem for Ambient Assisted Living
AU - Camarinha-Matos, Luís Manuel
AU - Rosas, João Almeida das
AU - Oliveira, Ana Inês
AU - Ferrada, Filipa
N1 - This work was funded in part by the Project AAL4ALL [QREN 13852], co-financed by the European Community Fund through 'COMPETE - Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade'. Partial support was also obtained from the European Commission through the BRAID project [FP7 programme].
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PY - 2015/8/18
Y1 - 2015/8/18
N2 - Effective provision of care and assistance services in ambient assisted living requires the involvement and collaboration of multiple stakeholders. To support such collaboration, the development of an ecosystem of products and services for active ageing plays an important role. This article introduces a conceptual architecture that supports such care ecosystem. In order to facilitate understanding and better interrelate concepts, a 3-layered model is adopted: Infrastructure layer, Care and assistance services layer and Ambient Assisted Living ecosystem layer. A holistic perspective of ambient assisted living, namely considering four important life settings is adopted: (1) independent living; (2) health and care in life; (3) occupation in life and (4) recreation in life. The proposed architecture is designed in the context of a national Portuguese project and in accordance with the findings of a large European road mapping initiative on ICT and ageing.
AB - Effective provision of care and assistance services in ambient assisted living requires the involvement and collaboration of multiple stakeholders. To support such collaboration, the development of an ecosystem of products and services for active ageing plays an important role. This article introduces a conceptual architecture that supports such care ecosystem. In order to facilitate understanding and better interrelate concepts, a 3-layered model is adopted: Infrastructure layer, Care and assistance services layer and Ambient Assisted Living ecosystem layer. A holistic perspective of ambient assisted living, namely considering four important life settings is adopted: (1) independent living; (2) health and care in life; (3) occupation in life and (4) recreation in life. The proposed architecture is designed in the context of a national Portuguese project and in accordance with the findings of a large European road mapping initiative on ICT and ageing.
KW - ICT and ageing
KW - collaborative networks
KW - services ecosystem
KW - ambient assisted living
KW - ecosystem architecture
KW - ambient assisted living
KW - collaborative networks
KW - ecosystem architecture
KW - ICT and ageing
KW - services ecosystem
U2 - 10.1080/17517575.2013.852693
DO - 10.1080/17517575.2013.852693
M3 - Article
SN - 1751-7575
VL - 9
SP - 607
EP - 633
JO - Enterprise Information Systems
JF - Enterprise Information Systems
IS - 5-6(SI)
ER -