Health Care 4.0: Challenges for the Elderly with IoT

• Author(s): Gil, Henrique ; Patrício, Maria Raquel
• Date: 2024
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/28711
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Ambient Assisted Living; Digital literacy; Elderly; Health Care; IoT
• Document Type: Book part
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Biblioteca Digital do IPB

Description

5G technology provides a greater presence and ubiquitous use of artificial intelligence that transforms all daily routines and, consequently, people's lives. With the increasing use of IoT in all environments, which include each one's homes, it requires citizens to have digital skills to be able to enjoy all these potentialities. The problem will be for info-excluded citizens who do not have digital skills and, as such, will not be able to have a better quality of life and health. In this context the elderly constitutes the most info-excluded range of citizens. In this sense, it is important to reflect and find measures and proposals so that the elderly can have a better quality of health and life with the use of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence that the IoT makes available.