Biomedical Engineering Applications for People with Disabilities and the Elderly in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Biomedical Engineering Applications for People with Disabilities and the Elderly in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond presents biomedical engineering applications used to manage people's disabilities and care for the elderly to improve their quality of life and extend life expectancy. This edited book covers all aspects of assistive technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT), telemedicine, e-Health, m-Health, smart sensors, robotics, devices for rehabilitation, and "serious" games. This book will prove useful for bioengineers, computer science undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, practitioners, biomedical engineering students, healthcare workers, and medical doctors.

This volume introduces recent advances in biomaterials, sensors, cellular engineering, biomedical devices, nanotechnology, and biomechanics applied in caring for the elderly and people with disabilities. The unique focus of this book is on the needs of this user base during emergency and disaster situations. The content includes risk reduction, emergency planning, response, disaster recovery, and needs assessment. This book offers readers multiple perspectives on a wide range of topics from a variety of disciplines. This book answers two key questions: What challenges will the elderly and people with disabilities face during a pandemic? How can new (or emerging) advances in biomedical engineering help with these challenges?

1. Physical activities for the elderly in a pandemic context during a relaxation of restrictions 2. Intelligent remote system for assessing a subject's health during sleep 3. A study on the recent developments in voltammetric sensors for the ß-blocker propranolol hydrochloride 4. Cloud-IoMT-based wearable body sensors network for monitoring elderly patients during the COVID-19 pandemic 5. Indoor physical activities for the elderly during the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic 6. Animated line, bar, and bubble plots for better COVID case analysis: Using R programming 7. Applications of physical activity before and during the COVID-19 pandemic for the elderly 8. Recovery activities for the locomotor system during the COVID-19 pandemic 9. The emerging association between boredom, COVID-19 anxiety, and aggressiveness in imposed prolonged social isolation 10. COVID-19 research: Open data resources and challenges 11. Comprehending COVID-19 as a contact network 12. Coronavirus: Diagnosis, detection, and analysis 13. Artificial intelligence: A boon for COVID-19 disease management 14. Radiotherapy for pelvic malignancies in a COVID-19 pandemic scenario: Focus on rectal and cervical cancers 15. A warehouse of information, COVID HUB: Data handling made simple! 16. Publisher software application for Braille devices 17. Challenges caused by the pandemic for the recovery program of cervical disc herniation 18. Strength training program for postmenopausal women with osteoporosis 19. The role of vitamin D and physical activity on osteopenia and osteoporosis 20. Osteoporosis: Evaluation and complications 21. Sedentarism?A predominant factor in difficult post-COVID-19 recovery 22. Improving the body's immunity against SARS-CoV-2 through exercise 23. Respiratory dispositive with intelligent shape-memory alloy wires to help artificial ventilation during sleep for SARS-CoV patients 24. Smart sensing and actuators for people with hand motion impairment: Assessment and support 25. Inner and outer conflicts born during the COVID-19 lockdown: A thematic analysis perspective 26. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychomotric components in chess games for children aged 8-10 27. Impact of physical activities on overweight people during the COVID-19 pandemic 28. Vulnerabilities and new critical security challenges of the Internet of Things (IoT) 29. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the physical and mental health of the elderly 30. A smart virtual vision system for health monitoring