ELDERLY AND THE USE OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AT HOME: A LITERATURE SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

• Main Authors: Hélter Pessôa de Moura Melo, Walter Franklin Marques Correia, Fábio Ferreira da Costa Campos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro 2020-12-01
• Series: Ergodesign & HCI
• Online Access: http://periodicos.puc-rio.br/index.php/revistaergodesign-hci/article/view/1443

Assistive Technologies (ATs) have great potential for healthy aging at home. Its activity reaches several sectors and it focuses on the progressive demand for improvements and new solutions. In this sense, this article aims to understand the studies direction related to ATs development, focusing on the elderly and domestic environment, in the last five years. For this, a systematic literature review was carried out in four stages according to the PRISMA recommendations. Scopus, SciELO and Google Scholar were used as databases, based on pre-defined terms, with publications in English and Portuguese and the period from 2015 to 2019. 36 studies were chosen for this review, observing the development of technologies related to physical and digital artifacts, ambient assisted living, wearable and immersive products, in addition to the services implementation for home environment. From the totality of studies, it was noticeable the valuation of issues related to privacy, cost and customization, in addition to the emergence of new action contexts when compared to the related works.