Advances in healthcare have led to longer life expectancy and the so-called aging population trend. The cost of caring for the elderly is rising progressively and threatens the economic well-being of many nations around the world. Instead of professional nursing facilities, many elderly people prefer living in their own homes independently. To enable successful aging in place, this research explores the roles of technology in improving the quality of life while reducing the cost of healthcare to the elder population. In particular, we propose a multi-agent service framework, called Context-Aware Service Integration System (CASIS), to integrate event-driven services with the OSGi service platform. This paper presents several context-aware service scenarios that have been developed on the proposed framework to demonstrate how context technologies and mobile web services can help enhance the quality of care for an elder's daily life.

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Conference, Vassar, and the 2007 American Economics Association meetings, as well as those of There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the literature. This essay focuses on links between parental socioeconomic status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or in some cases area of residence) and child health, and between child health and adult education or income. Specifically, I ask two questions: What is the evidence regarding whether parental socioeconomic status affects child health? And, what is the evidence relating child health to future educational and labor market outcomes? I show that there is now strong evidence of both links, suggesting that health could play a role in the intergenerational transmission of economic status. 2 When economists think of “human capital, ” they often mean education. A large body of literature has established that investments in education pay off in the form of higher future earnings, and that on average, differences in education can explain a significant fraction of the variation in wages and incomes among adults, as well as variation in many other positive

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