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AI-based technology in home-based care in aging societies: challenges and opportunities

In: Handbook of Artificial Intelligence at Work

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  • Naoko Muramatsu
  • Miloš Žefran
  • Emily Stiehl
  • Thomas Cornwell

Abstract

Globally, rapid population aging heightens expectations for technology to solve growing care needs, caregiving burdens, and healthcare workforce shortages. Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds promise as a core enabling technology to extend older adults’ daily activity functions, empower caregivers, and expand care providers’ abilities to address heterogeneous needs of aging technology users. This chapter discusses the current state and future directions of AI applications in home-based care for older adults. Current AI applications use repurposed devices or technology (e.g., smart phones, wearables, remote monitoring). AI excels at mapping data to labels, or symptoms to risks. However, AI is not skilled in coordinating multiple domains of care. We argue that AI should not replace but augment the work of human care providers. AI applications for home-based care must be co-produced by their users (care recipients, their families, caregivers, and healthcare providers).

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  • Naoko Muramatsu & Miloš Žefran & Emily Stiehl & Thomas Cornwell, 2024. "AI-based technology in home-based care in aging societies: challenges and opportunities," Chapters, in: Martha Garcia-Murillo & Ian MacInnes & Andrea Renda (ed.), Handbook of Artificial Intelligence at Work, chapter 9, pages 166-190, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20885_9
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