Using Mixed Reality and Machine Learning to Assist Caregivers in Nursing Home and Promote Well-being

The aging phenomenon in many of the developed countries all over the world, combined with the increase in life expectancy, has led to an increase in the number of elderly people resorting to nursing homes. In this context, the role of the caregiver is now a focus of increasing importance. The idea of ​​well-being combined with health and the provision of highly personalized quality care, requires a reengineering of the current concept/space of a nursing home. In this domain, Mixed Reality and Machine Learning have shown enormous potential to design new approaches to Information Systems to support caregiver activity. This redesign should be based on the empowerment of the caregiver and the facilitation of a more immersive support system for their activity and more suitable for a job that is in the field and not in the office, enabling them in real time with decision support information. This article, after an introduction to the reality of aging and the concept of the nursing home, makes a review of the state of the art of what has been the introduction of technology in nursing homes. As a contribution, this work proposes a model based on the combined use of Mixed Reality and Machine Learning, capable of redesigning the way caregivers are helped by empowering them.