Systematic Literature Review of Food-Intake Monitoring in an Aging Population†
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This paper is an extended version of our paper published in Moguel, E.; Berrocal, J.; Murillo, J.M.; García-Alonso, J.; Mendes, D.; Fonseca, C.; Lopes, M. Monitoring food intake in an aging population: a survey on technological solutions. Proceedings 2018, 2, 445.
Sensors 2019, 19(15), 3265; https://doi.org/10.3390/s19153265
Received: 30 May 2019 / Revised: 15 July 2019 / Accepted: 22 July 2019 / Published: 24 July 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from UCAmI 2018 –The 12th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence)
The dietary habits of people directly impact their health conditions. Especially in elder populations (in 2017, 6.7% of the world’s population was over 65 years of age), these habits could lead to important-nutrient losses that could seriously affect their cognitive and functional state. Recently, a great research effort has been devoted to using different technologies and proposing different techniques for monitoring food-intake. Nevertheless, these techniques are usually generic but make use of the most innovative technologies and methodologies to obtain the best possible monitoring results. However, a large percentage of elderly people live in depopulated rural areas (in Spain, 28.1% of the elderly population lives in this type of area) with a fragile cultural and socioeconomic context. The use of these techniques in these environments is crucial to improving this group’s quality of life (and even reducing their healthcare expenses). At the same time, it is especially challenging since they have very specific and strict requirements regarding the use and application of technology. In this Systematic Literature Review (SLR), we analyze the most important proposed technologies and techniques in order to identify whether they can be applied in this context and if they can be used to improve the quality of life of this fragile collective. In this SLR, we have analyzed 326 papers. From those, 29 proposals have been completely analyzed, taking into account the characteristics and requirements of this population.
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Keywords:
monitoring food intake; aging population; SLR
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Moguel, E.; Berrocal, J.; García-Alonso, J. Systematic Literature Review of Food-Intake Monitoring in an Aging Population. Sensors 2019, 19, 3265. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19153265
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Moguel E, Berrocal J, García-Alonso J. Systematic Literature Review of Food-Intake Monitoring in an Aging Population. Sensors. 2019; 19(15):3265. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19153265
Chicago/Turabian StyleMoguel, Enrique; Berrocal, Javier; García-Alonso, José. 2019. "Systematic Literature Review of Food-Intake Monitoring in an Aging Population" Sensors 19, no. 15: 3265. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19153265
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