Abstract
The elderly population is expected to grow worldwide due to significant improvements in health care, infrastructure, and economic factors. With longer lifespans, the elderly face health challenges associated with advanced age, chronic diseases, and disabilities. The Metaverse is a technology that has emerged in recent years with the potential to help manage elderly health challenges. We describe the basic components of the Metaverse and the services it currently provides. Then, we present and conceptually discuss use cases of the Metaverse (and associated technology) for elderly health care. Finally, we discuss various challenges that must be addressed in the future to successfully deploy elderly health-care Metaverse applications.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 58-64 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | IT Professional |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2025 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 1999-2012 IEEE.
Funding
We thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments which helped us improve the content and presentation of this paper. Alfredo Perez was supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Award 2447289. Michail Tsikerdekis was supported by the Fulbright Program and the Fulbright Foundation in Greece through a Fulbright Scholar Award during this work.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Fulbright Foundation in Greece | |
| National Science Foundation Arctic Social Science Program | 2447289 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Science Applications