AAL-WELL Ambient Assistive Living Technologies for Wellness, Engagement and Long Life

随着世界各地的人们寿命越来越长，越来越需要支持积极老龄化，以便尽可能地度过额外的岁月。技术在帮助人们生活各个方面的潜力正日益得到认可。环境辅助生活（AAL）技术是指人们可以在日常生活中使用的物品，以使生活更轻松，并帮助他们管理日常活动。为了使最大数量的人从当前和未来的AAL技术中受益，不仅需要很好地了解老年人的需求，还需要全面分析他们如何看待技术，他们对使用技术的态度以及他们如何做出购买和使用技术的决定。社会和文化因素可能会影响这些问题，因此本项目旨在与三个不同国家的老年人合作，探讨他们对新技术的需求、态度和行为。项目团队汇集了来自英国的老年学、工程学、职业治疗和心理学专家，加拿大和瑞典将与老年人合作，解决他们当前和未来对技术的需求，以支持他们尽可能过上好生活。该项目包括几个互补的组成部分，将在这三个国家内平行开展。第一个要素是用户需求分析，以检查老年人对AAL技术的需求，包括那些需要在认知活动、身体活动或运动活动方面得到支持的人。这一阶段的研究结果将决定下一阶段新型AAL技术的发展，以解决日常生活的各个方面，例如购物或烹饪，支持人们进行他们需要记住的活动，例如服用药物和与人保持联系。这些新技术将在这三个国家的老年人中进行试点，以检查他们如何应对并探索它们，为未来的发展提供信息。此外，我们将研究如何支持人们学习使用新技术，并将其融入他们的生活，以帮助他们尽可能地生活。

As people across the world live longer, there is a growing need to support active ageing so that the extra years of life can be lived as well as possible. The potential of technology to assist people in all aspects of their lives is increasingly being recognised. Ambient Assistive Living (AAL) technologies refer to items that people can use in their everyday lives to make life easier and help them manage their daily activities. To enable the maximum number of people to benefit from current and future AAL technologies requires not only a good understanding of the needs of older adults but also a comprehensive analysis of how they view technology, their attitudes towards using it and how they make decisions about purchasing and using technology. Social and cultural factors can influence these issues and so this project aims to work with older adults across three different countries to explore their needs, attitudes and behaviour towards novel technologies.The project team brings together experts in gerontology, engineering, occupational therapy and psychology from the UK, Canada and Sweden to work with older adults to address their current and future needs for technology to support them to live their lives as well as possible. The project comprises several complementary elements that will be carried out in parallel within the three countries. The first element is a user needs analysis to examine the older adults' requirements in relation to AAL technologies, including those people who need support with cognitive activities, physical activities or motor activities. The findings from this stage will determine the development of novel AAL technologies in the next stage to address various aspects of daily life, such as shopping or cooking, supporting people with activities they need to remember, such as taking medication and keeping in touch with people. These novel technologies will be piloted with older adults in each of the three countries to examine how they respond to and explore them to inform future developments. Additionally, we will look at how to support people to learn to use new technologies and incorporate them into their lives to help them live as well as possible.