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Nutrition for Elder Care: a nutritional semantic recommender system for the elderly
Author(s) -
Espín Vanesa,
Hurtado María V.,
Noguera Manuel
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
expert systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1468-0394
pISSN - 0266-4720
DOI - 10.1111/exsy.12143
Subject(s) - active ageing , promotion (chess) , computer science , semantic web , healthy ageing , reuse , successful aging , gerontology , cognition , recommender system , knowledge management , elderly people , internet privacy , world wide web , medicine , older people , ageing , psychiatry , politics , political science , law , biology , ecology
The awareness and familiarity of elderly people with the use of new technologies have increased considerably in the last few years, which consequently cause a higher willingness to the use of these technologies in their daily lives. This allows the elderly to benefit from technology through active and conscious participation in activities related to health, leisure and promotion of social relationships, fostering active ageing. Three large dimensions cover almost a major part of health care within the framework of early and intermediate stages of active ageing: physical exercise, healthy nutrition and cognitive stimulation. In this paper, we present a nutritional recommender system, Nutrition for Elder Care, intended to help elderly users to draw up their own healthy diet plans following the nutritional experts guidelines. The system has been developed with the intensive use of Semantic Web technologies pursuing knowledge sharing and reuse between different applications and agents and the discovering of implicit new knowledge.