Aging, a highly complex biological process, is inexorably associated with age-related health decline and frailty, which negatively affects several aspects of cognitive and motor functioning and thereby, increases the sedentary behaviors as well as the risk of fall and social exclusion in older adults. With the exponential growth in not only the ageing population, but the associated healthcare costs and the lack of prospects for causal pharmacological solutions, fostering Safety and Active Healthy Ageing and Wellbeing, is currently directed toward modifiable risk and lifestyle factors including physical activity, cognitive training and social participation.
Contrarywise, with the widespread availability of smart solutions, wireless internet, and digitalization and sensors, technology has become an integral part of peoples’ daily lives and creates an opportunity to facilitate health service delivery and personalized prevention and intervention programs accessibility. In line with the emerging evidence from the power of digital health solutions to allow easy and accurate characterization and intervention in health and disease, recent World Health Organisation (WHO) reports indicate that an “Active and Healthy Aging (AHA)” approach should follow the current revolution in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Particularly, since technology become commonly available and more powerful WHO highlighted the importance of developing smart solutions / living environments to facilitate the delivery of healthcare service (e.g., physical and cognitive training programs) among healthy and diseased elderly populations.
Thus, this Research Topic welcomes varied contributions (from Original Research to Review Articles) aiming to (i) investigate the effect of ICT based physical and/or cognitive training intervention on physical and mental health in elderly (healthy or diseased), (ii) and develop and validate smart solution/environment to foster AHA.
Aging, a highly complex biological process, is inexorably associated with age-related health decline and frailty, which negatively affects several aspects of cognitive and motor functioning and thereby, increases the sedentary behaviors as well as the risk of fall and social exclusion in older adults. With the exponential growth in not only the ageing population, but the associated healthcare costs and the lack of prospects for causal pharmacological solutions, fostering Safety and Active Healthy Ageing and Wellbeing, is currently directed toward modifiable risk and lifestyle factors including physical activity, cognitive training and social participation.
Contrarywise, with the widespread availability of smart solutions, wireless internet, and digitalization and sensors, technology has become an integral part of peoples’ daily lives and creates an opportunity to facilitate health service delivery and personalized prevention and intervention programs accessibility. In line with the emerging evidence from the power of digital health solutions to allow easy and accurate characterization and intervention in health and disease, recent World Health Organisation (WHO) reports indicate that an “Active and Healthy Aging (AHA)” approach should follow the current revolution in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Particularly, since technology become commonly available and more powerful WHO highlighted the importance of developing smart solutions / living environments to facilitate the delivery of healthcare service (e.g., physical and cognitive training programs) among healthy and diseased elderly populations.
Thus, this Research Topic welcomes varied contributions (from Original Research to Review Articles) aiming to (i) investigate the effect of ICT based physical and/or cognitive training intervention on physical and mental health in elderly (healthy or diseased), (ii) and develop and validate smart solution/environment to foster AHA.
