AAL-WELL: Ambient Assistive Living Technologies for Wellness, Engagement, and Long Life
A globally aging population demands innovative approaches to ensure people across societies can live and age well. In particular there is a need to move from health and social agendas that emphasise dependency in later life to ones that promote active aging at home. The focus of AAL-WELL is to harness the potential of ambient assistive living (AAL) technology to promote active and healthy aging with a specific focus on older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).
AAL is a novel approach that has the potential to make a major contribution to enabling people to live and age as well as possible. Firstly, by supporting individuals to maintain and continue their current activities and secondly by anticipating and responding to their changing needs. AAL technologies can facilitate and enable continued participation and engagement in activities at home and in the community, which helps to operationalize health through measures of perceived or self-rated physical, and mental health, well-being and quality of life and engagement in social activities.
Our team consists of researchers from Canada, Scotland, and Sweden. It is part of the ERA-AGE2 program, with funding provided by CIHR, ESRC, and the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research.
AAL is a novel approach that has the potential to make a major contribution to enabling people to live and age as well as possible. Firstly, by supporting individuals to maintain and continue their current activities and secondly by anticipating and responding to their changing needs. AAL technologies can facilitate and enable continued participation and engagement in activities at home and in the community, which helps to operationalize health through measures of perceived or self-rated physical, and mental health, well-being and quality of life and engagement in social activities.
Our team consists of researchers from Canada, Scotland, and Sweden. It is part of the ERA-AGE2 program, with funding provided by CIHR, ESRC, and the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research.
