Lifestyle Modelling

Lifestyle modelling is the correlation of a person's observed day-to-day activities — sleeping, eating, moving between rooms, interacting with objects — with inferences about their well-being, usually using data from ambient sensors in the home. In accessibility and ageing-in-place research, a lifestyle model captures a baseline pattern over weeks or months and then flags deviations that may indicate decline, illness, or changes in medication. The approach sits on a privacy spectrum: coarse models such as busyness counts preserve privacy better than activity-level inference from cameras or wearables. Lifestyle modelling is an enabling technology for telecare, dementia support, and family caregiver 'dialogue of care' dashboards.