ActiThings Toolkit - Towards Supporting Older Adults’ Adherence to Home-based Physical Exercise Programs by Providing Notifications in Opportune Moments

Elke Beck, Kai von Holdt, Jochen Meyer

2018

Abstract

Home-based physical exercise programs can delay or even prevent age-related frailty among older adults, but insufficient adherence to these programs, especially long-term, is a reoccurring problem. We suggest aiding the integration of simple exercises into daily routine by using innovative interactive tools which provide older adults with environmental prompts for exercises in opportune moments. In this paper, we report on our lessons learned with exploring the usefulness of our ActiThings toolkit, which includes a broad range of unobtrusive, portable, ubiquitous sensing and feedback technologies.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Beck E., von Holdt K. and Meyer J. (2018). ActiThings Toolkit - Towards Supporting Older Adults’ Adherence to Home-based Physical Exercise Programs by Providing Notifications in Opportune Moments . In Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-281-3, SciTePress, pages 519-526. DOI: 10.5220/0006647705190526

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf18,
author={Elke Beck and Kai von Holdt and Jochen Meyer},
title={ActiThings Toolkit - Towards Supporting Older Adults’ Adherence to Home-based Physical Exercise Programs by Providing Notifications in Opportune Moments },
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF},
year={2018},
pages={519-526},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006647705190526},
isbn={978-989-758-281-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2018) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF
TI - ActiThings Toolkit - Towards Supporting Older Adults’ Adherence to Home-based Physical Exercise Programs by Providing Notifications in Opportune Moments
SN - 978-989-758-281-3
AU - Beck E.
AU - von Holdt K.
AU - Meyer J.
PY - 2018
SP - 519
EP - 526
DO - 10.5220/0006647705190526
PB - SciTePress