social care

New pre-print out on our qualitative study of older adults living with sensors at home

Our paper on “Early experiences and views of older adults living with sensing technology at home: A qualitative study” is available as a pre-print here.

This study explored older adults’ perceptions and lived experiences of sensing technologies integrated into their home environments. Using semi-structured interviews and in-home observations, we examined how older individuals interacted with motion, magnetic, and physiological sensors embedded in their everyday routines.

and it is a companion paper to our modelling paper currently available on arXiv as arXiv:2507.08701.

New pre-print on understanding the activities of older adults via logic and data

In this work, we introduce a framework for representing and reasoning about the Activities of Daily Living of older adults living independently at home. The framework integrates data from sensors and contextual information that aggregates semi-structured interviews, home layouts and sociological observations from the participants.

Pre-print: arXiv:2507.08701.

Our second analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on Scotland’s care-homes published in Age and Ageing

Following from our previous analysis of care-home outbreaks of COVID-19 in Scotland in 2020, which appeared in Age and Ageing in 2021, our paper on the “Analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on Scotland’s care-homes from March 2020 to October 2021: national linked data cohort analysis” has just been published in the same journal.

This shows that, in total 296 (27.1%) care-homes had one outbreak, 220 (20.1%) had two, 91 (8.3%) had three, and 68 (6.2%) had four or more. A general conclusion is that COVID-19 mitigation measures appear to have been beneficial, although the impact on residents remained severe until early 2021.