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

Naoko Muramatsu, Miloš Žefran, Emily Stiehl and Thomas Cornwell

Chapter 9 in Handbook of Artificial Intelligence at Work, 2024, pp 166-190 from Edward Elgar Publishing

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).

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Innovations and Technology; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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