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Figure2. PopulationpyramidEU-28,2017and2080(%of the totalpopulation) [12] 2. Background Several studies have been conducted in the area of smart house environmentswith var- ious reviews in this field available [4, 7]. In the field of healthcare involving smart houses, several research have beenmade to study older people’s perception of smart houses [13–15]. Most of the research in smart houses from the technological aspects dealswith im- provement, new technology implementation, and activity detection to adapt the smart house to the user. Among the relevant works is theManaging an Intelligent Versatile Home (MavHome), whose goal is to increase the comfort of the users and reduce the operationcosts [16].The“GatorTech” smart house implements several smart devices to “optimize thecomfort andsafetyofanolderperson” [17]. User activity detection has widely been researched, and several analysismethods havebeenused[4]. Insummary, theanalysismethods rangefrompattern recognitional- gorithmsandcomputervision [18],machine learning [19,20], statisticalmodels [21,22], among others. However, only a few studies have been conducted in behaviourmod- elling [9,23–26]. Thestudiesthathavebeendoneinthehealthcareareausuallyreportabouttheethical concerns on smart houses or older people’s opinion about smart houses [15,27]. There are,however,gapsbetweenthe technologyandthehealthcareresearchregardingwelfare technology. As a result, the end-user (the older person) is ultimately the one who is affectedbecauseof thesegaps. 3. DesignandMethods An analysis was chosen in this study to report the findings. Initial comparison in the terminologyusedbetween the technologyandhealthcarefieldsarediscussed.Secondly, an analysis of the terminology, healthcare with a focus on the person, ethical and le- gal challenges, andolderpeople’s strugglewith technologyarediscussed.Finally, some recommendationsareprovided todiminish thegapbetween the twofields. V.G.Sanchez /WelfareTechnology,Healthcare,andBehaviourModelling–AnAnalysis298