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Free of most social constraints, elderly people tend to perform activities of daily living following the same sequence. This paper proposes a method for medical telesurveillance to detect and quantify a nycthemeral shift in this daily routine. While this common phenomenon is mostly mild, in acute cases, however, it may reveal a pathological behavior requiring a rapid medical examination. This method...
We have developed a non-invasive system for monitoring cardiac vibrations, respiration and body movement of in-bed hospitalized patients and elderly people who need constant care. These physiological parameters are recorded by an infrared emitting diode and a photo transistor, which are attached between spring coils in bed mattress. The infrared emitting diode diffuses infrared light into the mattress...
The number of elderly who live on their own is increasing. Falls in the elderly are a major problem which has a long term effect. If the elderly can get help immediately after a fall, the severity of the injury, and the cost could be reduced. This paper presents a fall detection algorithm utilizing two thresholds for the resultant acceleration in 1.5-s window segments. Data was acquired using a tri-axial...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an arrhythmia that can lead to several patient risks. This kind of arrhythmia affects mostly elderly people, in particular those who suffer from heart failure (one of the main causes of hospitalization). Thus, detection of AF becomes decisive in the prevention of cardiac threats. In this paper an algorithm for AF detection based on a novel algorithm architecture and feature...
The HomeCare system is designed, developed and realized in our laboratory. It is remote monitoring system of base life functions which takes care about alone living elderly people. Not only standard monitored biosignals can give us the valuable information about the change in the state of the health of the monitored person. One of the possible monitored values can be the circadian cycle. The monitoring...
Falls are very prevalent among the elderly especially in their home. Approximately one in every three adults 65 years old or older falls each year, 30% of those falls result in serious injuries and more than 70% of the event are at home. Rapid detection of fall events can reduce the rate of mortality and raise the chances to survive the event and return to independent living. In this paper we present...
Heart failure has been identified as a serious international problem, in particular for aging groups, posing both an increasing number of patients on waiting lists in countries susceptible with Medicare systems and increasing financial burdens. It may be imperative to develop a marker that can identify such problems at an early stage. It is believed that certain proteins have crucial roles in early...
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