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City For All Ages: Elderly-friendly City Services for Active and Healthy Ageing
Led by National University of Singapore · Updated on 2024-07-05
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Participants Needed
2
Research Sites
518 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
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National University of Singapore
Lead Sponsor
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University of Sfax
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Many city-dwelling elderly people can be greatly affected after a minor change in their living or health conditions. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), early dementia and frailty are among the most common risks with deep consequences on elderly's and caregivers' quality of life. Through the new wave of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Internet of Things (IoT) and smart city system, it is now possible to help individuals capture and make use of their personal data in a way that will help them maintain their independence for longer. The City for all Ages project will create an innovative service based on: * ICT-enhanced early detection of risk related to frailty * ICT-enhanced interventions that can help the elderly population to improve their daily life and also promote positive behaviour change Through real-life pilot sites in Singapore in collaboration with TOUCH Senior Activity Centre (SAC) and the Housing Development Board (HDB), this project explores how data on individual behaviours captured through indoor and outdoor sensors could be used for the observation and detection of the following parameters: * Activity of Daily Living (ADL): nutrition, hygiene, sleep activity * Mobility: physical activity, going-out frequency and length * Cognition: forgetfulness, early signs of mental decline * Socialization: senior activity centre visits, activities attended, other places of interests visits This 2-year project comprises of 3 phrases involving 10 healthy elderly living in HDB home in phases 1 and 2 and 100 elderly in phase 3. Our focus is to use sensing technologies installed in the elderly's home to monitor and detect their activities of daily living. Sensor data that is collected will then be analyzed to identify relevant behaviours of individuals, and to detect behavioral changes that can be correlated with risks of MCI/frailty. The appropriate ICT based interventions (e.g. data visualization and alerts to caregivers) will then be applied to mitigate these risks. Additionally, psychosocial data related to the elderly's quality of life, social activity participation and activities of daily living will also be collected via interviews and activity logs to evaluate the outcomes of our technology intervention.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
City For All Ages: Elderly-friendly City Services for Active and Healthy Ageing
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Cognitively able elderly people as determined by senior activity center staff
- Living alone or with no more than 2 flatmates
- Resident of an HDB apartment
- Preferably living in apartments with WIFI internet connection
- English or Chinese speaker (in phase 1, only Mandarin speakers included; dialect speakers may be included in later phases)
- Member of the Senior Activity Centre
- Agree to share their activity of daily living data with the research team, Senior Activity Centre staff, and designated relatives if applicable
You will not qualify if you...
- Not meeting the inclusion criteria
- Severe disabilities
- Reduced mobility requiring wheelchair use
- Severe dementia
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 2 locations
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Institut Mines Télécom (IMT)
Paris, France
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2
National University of Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Masking
N/A
Allocation
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Model
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Primary Purpose
N/A
Number of Arms
1
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