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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Ambient Assisted Living: A Review of Technologies, Methodologies and Future Perspectives for Healthy Aging of Population.

Grazia Cicirelli, Roberto Marani, Antonio Petitti, Annalisa Milella, Tiziana D'Orazio

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In one paragraph

Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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41citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Barriers and Facilitators of Ambient Assisted Living Systems: A Systematic Literature Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  7. Anomaly Detection Technologies for Dementia Care: Monitoring Goals, Sensor Applications, and Trade-offs in Home-Based Solutions-A Narrative Review.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026
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  20. A Review on Assisted Living Using Wearable Devices.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Grazia CicirelliInstitute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via G. Amendola 122, 70126 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1562-0467
Roberto MaraniInstitute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via G. Amendola 122, 70126 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5599-903X
Antonio PetittiInstitute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via G. Amendola 122, 70126 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6151-8653
Annalisa MilellaInstitute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via G. Amendola 122, 70126 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9456-7590
Tiziana D'OrazioInstitute of Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing (STIIMA), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Via G. Amendola 122, 70126 Bari, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1473-7110

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the last decade, there has been considerable and increasing interest in the development of Active and Assisted Living (AAL) systems to support independent living. The demographic change towards an aging population has introduced new challenges to today's society from both an economic and societal standpoint. AAL can provide an arrary of solutions for improving the quality of life of individuals, for allowing people to live healthier and independently for longer, for helping people with disabilities, and for supporting caregivers and medical staff. A vast amount of literature exists on this topic, so this paper aims to provide a survey of the research and skills related to AAL systems. A comprehensive analysis is presented that addresses the main trends towards the development of AAL systems both from technological and methodological points of view and highlights the main issues that are worthy of further investigation.

Indexed as

Ambient IntelligenceAssisted Living FacilitiesHealthy AgingAgedHumansIndependent LivingQuality of LifeTechnologyactive assisted livingdata collectionenvironmental sensorsmethodologies for data analysissmart objectswearable sensors

Identifiers

PMID34069727
PMCPMC8160803

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