Ambient Intelligence Based Vision to At-Home Laboratory for Personalized Monitoring and Assessment of Motion-Cognitive State in Elderly

Humans loose functionality of many physiological systems and, hence, the social adaptation, after the age of 60. 65 years. The motor, cognitive, and circulation systems are the most essential for personal social adaptation. The human brain adapts to these age-related dysfunctions by means of natural reorganization and modification of its activity, though non-sufficiently. In this paper we review possible “external” interventions based on the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) technology. Interventions aim at compensation for growing social de-adaptation of the elderly that takes place due to cognitive and motor impairments. We propose and discuss a novel concept of AmI-based “supplementary neocortex” (neo-neocortex) or “augmented intelligence” that in a close-to-natural form would partly substitute declining own cognition and mobility. We introduce our design vision of At-Home Laboratory (AHL) assisting the elder person posted on the real state of his/her functionality in everyday life.