Handbook of Ambient Assisted Living—Technology for Healthcare, Rehabilitation and Well-being

As people are living longer and needing more health care, advanced technology is offered here as perhaps the only way to provide affordable care for many. Contributors from health sciences and from technical fields report the current status and imminent potential of ambient assisted living from such perspectives as using human factors to guide the design and implementation of consumer health informatics interventions, the biometric monitoring of behavior, the role of assistive technology in supporting formal carers, designing ambient and personalized displays to encourage healthier lifestyles, applications to remote motor rehabilitation, managing chronic conditions using wireless sensor networks, and the role of design ethnography in developing social care technologies for isolated older adults. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)