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The incorporation of new technologies in elder care is becoming more and more usual over time. This is largely due to a great extent to the awareness and familiarity that this sector of population has acquired with the use of technology in their daily lives. In this paper, we present a nutritional recommender system, NutElCare (Nutrition for Elder Care), intended to help elderly users to draw up their own healthy diet plans following, at the same time, the nutritional experts guidelines. This recommender system is currently being integrated into VIRTRA-EL (VIRtual TRAining in ELderly people), a platform that provides support to active aging.
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Espín, V., Hurtado, M.V., Noguera, M. (2014). Towards Holistic Support of Active Aging through Cognitive Stimulation, Exercise and Assisted Nutrition. In: Pecchia, L., Chen, L.L., Nugent, C., Bravo, J. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living and Daily Activities. IWAAL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8868. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13105-4_45
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