The number of methods for identifying potential fall risk is growing as the rate of elderly
fallers continues to rise in the UK. Assessments for identifying risk of falling are usually …

Traditional wearable devices have various shortcomings, such as uncomfortableness for
long-term wearing, and insufficient accuracy, etc. Thus, health monitoring through traditional …

Background and objective We live our lives by the calendar and the clock, but time is also an
abstraction, even an illusion. The sense of time can be both domain-specific and complex …

Objective In an ageing world population more citizens are at risk of cognitive impairment,
with negative consequences on their ability of independent living, quality of life and …

Purpose Smart home devices have great potential to improve the quality of life and
independence of older people, positively impacting their health, safety, and comfort …

Considering the increasing aging of the population, multi-device monitoring of the activities
of daily living (ADL) of older people becomes crucial to support independent living and early …

This paper presents a study of why and how Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) can be used in
the long term to help elderly people living alone in a Smart Home. The work focuses on the …

Big data technologies are nowadays providing health care with powerful instruments to
gather and analyze large volumes of heterogeneous data collected for different purposes …

Objective When a new drug is marketed, physicians must decide whether they will consider
it for their future practice. However, information about new drugs can be biased or hard to …

Highlights•EFSA enables timely production of EU Zoonoses Summary Reports.•EFSA's DCF
is an efficient system for the collection of zoonoses monitoring data in EU.•The quality of …