Fabrice (Hrsg.) Jotterand

Intelligent Assistive Technologies for Dementia

Clinical, Ethical, Social, and Regulatory Implications

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The financial burden and the level of specialized care required to look after older adults with dementia has reached the point of a public health crisis. Older adults diagnosed and living with the disorder reached 35.6 million worldwide in 2010 and is expected to increase to 135.5 million in 2050, with costs soaring to $1.1 trillion.In the face of the increasing burden this disorder poses to health care systems and the management of this patient population, intelligent assistive technologies (IATs) represent a remarkable and promising strategy to meet the need of persons suffering from dementia. These technologies aim at helping individuals… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Ienca, Marcello (Hrsg.) / Wangmo, Tenzin (Hrsg.) / Elger, Bernice (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-045982-6
EAN: 9780190459826
Produktnummer: 32482707
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 384 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'584 KB
Abbildungen: 15

Über den Autor

Fabrice Jotterand is Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland.Bernice Elger Bernice Elger is internist and Head of the Institute for Biomedical Ethics (University of Basel) and full professor at the Center for Legal Medicine (University of Geneva) where she leads the Unit for Health Law and Humanitarian Medicine. She studied medicine and theology in Germany, France, Switzerland and the US.Tenzin Wangmo is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland. Her scholarship and research interests focus on issues including intergenerational relationship, aging and ethics, health of older prisoners, and empirical bioethics.Marcello Ienca is a research fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). His research focuses on the convergence of natural and artificial intelligence in the digital age with particular emphasis on the ethical and social implications of neurotechnology, machine intelligence, big data and digital health.