Panorama de la protección económica y asistencial pública y privada de las personas mayores en España

Actualmente, el sistema de asistencia social y sanitaria por un lado, y el sistema de pensiones por otro, se muestran claramente insuficientes para atender las necesidades que puedan tener los mayores una vez que acceden a la jubilación. Así lo demuestran los datos estadísticos que se aportan en la primera parte del trabajo. Si bien es cierto que muchas personas mayores son atendidas por sus familiares más cercanos, quienes asumen de forma natural el cuidado de sus ascendientes, resulta necesario desarrollar y fomentar la contratación de instrumentos jurídicos de carácter privado que den cobertura a las necesidades expuestas. Se trata de instrumentos que, a día de hoy, apenas representan un porcentaje significativo en el patrimonio de las personas mayores pero que buscan ser un complemento a la oferta pública de servicios. En todo caso, serán siempre complementarios y no sustitutivos de la oferta pública. De este modo si agentes públicos y privados actúan de manera conjunta, pueden llegar a ofrecer una protección completa a los problemas específicos de suficiencia económica, salud, vivienda, cultura y ocio a los que hace referencia el artículo 50 de la Constitución española. El presente trabajo pretende ofrecer una descripción básica de la situación en la que se encuentran los mayores y los instrumentos que de un lado y otro existen para dar cobertura a dichos problemas.Nowadays, the Spanish public health care system on the one hand, and the pension system on the other, are hardly enough to serve elderly needs once they retire. The statistical data that I use in the first part of this paper may show it. Although family care still remains the main way to provide care to elderly people –traditionally, it was taken for granted that the family would take care of family members in need of care- it is now required to develop other alternatives at the private sector to serve their needs. However, despite the increasing interest in alternative investments, these kind of assets hardly represent a significant proportion in elderly budgets. At the same time we have to take into account that these instruments are designed to complement the public resources, not to replace them. Nevertheless, if private and public institutions work together it would be possible to provide a complete protection for their specific problems of adequate income, health, housing, culture and leisure, needs that the Spanish constitution refers to in its section 50. This paper intends to offer a brief description about the status of the elderly in our society and the solutions the public network and private market can offer them

Design and development of a low-cost wearable glove to track forces exerted by workers in car assembly lines

Wearables are gaining widespread use and technologies are making it possible to monitor human physical activity and behaviour as part of connected infrastructures. Many companies see wearables as an opportunity to enhance worker safety since they can monitor their workers’ activity in real life scenarios. One of the goals of this technology is to integrate existing electronic components, such as sensors or conductors, in order to create fully wearable systems. This integration is constrained not only by technical factors but also by user requirements and internal company standards. This paper considers such constraints and presents preliminary research for the design of a wearable glove as a new tool to track forces exerted by workers in car assembly lines. The objective of the glove is to measure forces and compare these to maximum forces already identified by the company. Thus, the main objectives are to: (1) integrate the components based on the requirements of the users and the context of application, and (2) provide a new tool that can be used “in situ” to track workers. This study was carried out in close collaboration with Volkswagen through a human-centred iterative design process. Thus, this paper presents the development of a wearable device glove based on a specific design methodology where both the human and technological aspects are considered

Design and development of a low-cost wearable glove to track forces exerted by workers in car assembly lines

Wearables are gaining widespread use and technologies are making it possible to monitor human physical activity and behaviour as part of connected infrastructures. Many companies see wearables as an opportunity to enhance worker safety since they can monitor their workers’ activity in real life scenarios. One of the goals of this technology is to integrate existing electronic components, such as sensors or conductors, in order to create fully wearable systems. This integration is constrained not only by technical factors but also by user requirements and internal company standards. This paper considers such constraints and presents preliminary research for the design of a wearable glove as a new tool to track forces exerted by workers in car assembly lines. The objective of the glove is to measure forces and compare these to maximum forces already identified by the company. Thus, the main objectives are to: (1) integrate the components based on the requirements of the users and the context of application, and (2) provide a new tool that can be used “in situ” to track workers. This study was carried out in close collaboration with Volkswagen through a human-centred iterative design process. Thus, this paper presents the development of a wearable device glove based on a specific design methodology where both the human and technological aspects are considered