Title
Smart Built Environments and Independent Living: A Public Health Perspective.
Abstract
To address the projected global shortfall of gerontological health care workers, we outline a research approach that is informed by the past successes of public health toward the goal of developing and implementing smart homes at the community-level to support independent living. Specifically, we discuss the epidemiologic triad consisting of host, environment, and agent factors in relation to other person-environment fit models. We propose this model as the underlying framework for a smart homes development approach that focuses on creating task advantages to support independence at home. We provide recommendations to implement the approach by including community-level stakeholders and policy makers in research that uses a model well-recognized by public health professionals.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-14424-5_24
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Smart homes,Public health,Independent aging,Older adults
Public health,Health care,Computer science,Computer security,Knowledge management,Independent living
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8456
0302-9743
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Blaine Reeder1707.87
George Demiris213130.82
Hilaire Thompson3384.51