DEsign for healthy ageing: a smart system to decrease LONELINESS for older people (DELONELINESS)

健康老龄化设计：减少老年人孤独感的智能系统（DELONELINESS）

• 批准号: EP/W031434/1
• 负责人: Wei Liu
• 金额: $ 123.39万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FW031434%2F1
• 关键词: DEsign; healthy; ageing; smart; system

Loneliness is a growing health concern in a rapidly ageing society. As Age UK noted in 2018, 1.4 million older people class themselves as often lonely, and it is estimated this will rise to 2 million people over the aged of 50 by 2025. Loneliness, typically defined as a "discrepancy between one's desired and achieved levels of social relations" is generally experienced by over one third of older people. The subjective feeling of loneliness has been associated with a range of negative outcomes including increased prevalence of physical and mental illness, all-cause mortality, and risk of self-harm. Whilst issues of loneliness may be overlooked by health and social service professionals, the COVID-19 pandemic could have accelerated these issues due to lockdown. Reduced access to social support networks, community events and family highlight the need to detect and support those who are lonely at home. It is of paramount importance to refine methods of identifying loneliness in those who are isolated to allow timely and effective intervention. This proposal aims to develop a smart monitoring and communication system with multifunctional electronics built into textiles used as wearables and home furniture to measure loneliness levels in older people. The timely and accurate identification of loneliness of older people will enable informed care choices at home. The main objective of this research is to determine different levels of loneliness via bespoke multi-sensing monitoring. This could be used to identify those at risk of loneliness and highlight priorities for targeted intervention. Prompt actions to identify and help lonely older people would help to decrease the risk of developing serious healthcare issues and help support them to live independently. DELONELINESS is an interdisciplinary project bringing academic experts from Social Gerontology, Psychology, Design, Smart Composite Material, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and industrial partners as well as policy makers to: (i) to understand the conditions of being lonely and (ii) to develop a smart system to measure and monitor loneliness. The diverse team represents individuals from a range of ethnicities, gender identifications and career stages.

在快速老龄化的社会中，孤独是一个日益严重的健康问题。正如《英国年龄》杂志在 2018 年指出的那样，有 140 万老年人将自己归为孤独者，预计到 2025 年，50 岁以上的人数将增加到 200 万人。孤独感通常被定义为“一个人期望的社会关系水平与已达到的社会关系水平之间的差异”，超过三分之一的老年人通常都会经历这种情况。主观的孤独感与一系列负面结果相关，包括身体和精神疾病患病率增加、全因死亡率和自残风险增加。虽然健康和社会服务专业人员可能会忽视孤独问题，但由于封锁，COVID-19 大流行可能会加速这些问题的出现。获得社会支持网络、社区活动和家庭的机会减少，凸显了发现和支持那些在家中感到孤独的人的必要性。完善识别孤独者孤独感的方法至关重要，以便及时有效地进行干预。该提案旨在开发一种智能监控和通信系统，将多功能电子设备内置于纺织品中，用作可穿戴设备和家用家具，以测量老年人的孤独程度。及时准确地识别老年人的孤独感将使家庭能够做出明智的护理选择。这项研究的主要目的是通过定制的多传感监测来确定不同程度的孤独感。这可以用来识别那些面临孤独风险的人，并突出有针对性的干预的优先事项。及时采取行动识别和帮助孤独的老年人将有助于降低出现严重医疗问题的风险，并帮助支持他们独立生活。 DELONELINESS 是一个跨学科项目，汇聚了来自社会老年学、心理学、设计、智能复合材料和人工智能 (AI) 的学术专家以及行业合作伙伴以及政策制定者：(i) 了解孤独的状况，以及 (ii) 开发一个智能系统来衡量和监控孤独。多元化的团队代表来自不同种族、性别认同和职业阶段的个人。

项目成果

Wearables, sensors and the future of technology to detect and infer loneliness in older adults

可穿戴设备、传感器和未来技术来检测和推断老年人的孤独感

• DOI: 10.4017/gt.2023.22.2.ree.08
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Gerontechnology
• 作者: Rees J

Understanding the psychological experiences of loneliness in later life: qualitative protocol to inform technology development.

• DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072420
• 发表时间: 2023-06-19
• 期刊: BMJ OPEN
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Rees, Jessica;Liu, Wei;Ourselin, Sebastien;Shi, Yu;Probst, Freya;Antonelli, Michela;Tinker, Anthea;Matcham, Faith
• 通讯作者: Matcham, Faith

Psychological experiences of loneliness in later life.

晚年孤独的心理经历。

• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Jessica Rees