{"id":2689,"date":"2026-03-28T21:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2026-03-28T21:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T01:28:47","slug":"smart-homes-helping-older-adults-live-safely-and-independently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/2026\/smart-homes-helping-older-adults-live-safely-and-independently\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart homes helping older adults live safely and independently"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Smart homes helping older adults live safely and independently\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nrc.canada.ca\/en\/stories\/smart-homes-helping-older-adults-live-safely-independently\">NRC Article on our recent project<\/a><br>One morning, an older man doesn&#8217;t go to the kitchen for breakfast as he usually does. Instead, he&#8217;s still sitting on the edge of his bed, feeling light\u2011headed. His smart home&#8217;s sensors notice the change in his routine and heart rate and send an alert to his caregiver, who checks in right away. He&#8217;s reassured that if it had been something serious, help could have been on the way in minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This scene could soon be a reality for many older adults. Smart home technology is evolving to help people age safely and independently in the comfort of their own homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s precisely the goal of a collaborative project involving the NRC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/nrc.canada.ca\/en\/research-development\/research-collaboration\/programs\/aging-place-challenge-program\">Aging in Place Challenge program<\/a>\u00a0(AiP), <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/\">Carleton University<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bruyere.org\/en\/bruyere-research-institute\">Bruy\u00e8re\u00a0Health Research Institute<\/a> and Canadian industry leaders that aims to integrate health monitoring into age-friendly homes.<br><em class=\"myprefix-text-italic\">see link for full article<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRC Article on our recent projectOne morning, an older man doesn&#8217;t go to the kitchen for breakfast as he usually does. Instead, he&#8217;s still sitting on the edge of his bed, feeling light\u2011headed. His smart home&#8217;s sensors notice the change in his routine and heart rate and send an alert to his caregiver, who checks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[142,136,143,141,140,158,22,41,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expcognition","category-expsound","category-expvideo","category-expvitals","category-expvm","category-exresp","category-news","category-nrc_well","category-nrc_news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2691,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sam3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}