Keywords
Ambient Assisted living; e-services; Implementation
Abstract
Introduction: Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) services are expected to foster economic, environmental, and social growth. Many different strategies are used today to create infrastructures that support effective implementation of e-services and facilitate the transition to an individual-centred system. However generic implementation of e-services that contribute to develop new alternatives to deliver social care and wellbeing services in AAL-environments has not yet taken place.
Aim: The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the issues that influence the effectiveness of implementation of e-services in ambient assisted living contexts.
Method: The paper uses knowledge sampled in a report produced by one of the authors of this article for the Swedish Innovation Agency (VINNOVA) in Sweden, where issues related to implementation of IT-based applications and e-services were discusses as well as in data collected in two European projects connected to the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Programme in which strategies to implement e-services were studied and analyzed.
Results: The paper identifies ex-ante and ex-post enablers and concerns that are of importance at the moment to implement e-services in ambient assisted living contexts. The knowledge presented in this paper can be of importance for decision-makers, managers, and individuals who need to develop strategies that facilitate the implementation of e-services across a whole organization.
Citation
Vimarlund V and Lindenfalk B. Ambient Assisted Living e-services: Challenges to their Implementation. SM J Public Health Epidemiol. 2017; 3(1): 1038s.