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Computer and Internet technology is a potential source of valuable general as well as health information and plays an increasing role in our everyday lives. The main objective or this study was to evaluate the use of computer and the Internet among older people. The study was conducted by the National Institute of Gerontology and Geriatrics "Ana Aslan" over a period of 6 months in 2015....
AimsTo determine preferred content and format for online education modules in aged care among inter‐professional learners; to develop resources that meet user preferences.
MethodsStakeholders were interviewed. A survey was administered to all health/medical students and teachers at The University of Western Australia. An iterative process was used to develop modules, and user feedback was collated...
In population structure of aging society, the life expectancy of national average is extended because medical treatment is improved. The rate of people of chronic disease is gradually increased year by year and caused by lifestyle related disease and unbalanced food. Moreover, it is dropping. Improvements of the daily life and the treatment of diet of the elderly, the chronic patient and the special...
The aim of this work is to put forth some basic methodological aspects that are being followed in the demanding task of the development of a telemedical platform for the efficient control and management of chronic elderly patients. Among the main methodological concepts proposed there is: an integrated market-oriented approach, a user-centered design, an evaluation-driven development and a work plan...
In Japan, the number of elderly persons who take medicine regularly has been increasing due to population aging. Since they can have the serious accidents caused by incorrect medication, we propose a medication monitoring system to detect incorrect medication. The system is composed of an intelligent medicine case, house-embedded sensors, and a database server. The case recognizes whether an elderly...
In Japan, the total number of elderly recipients who take medicine regularly has been increasing due to population aging. Since they sometimes induce the serious accidents caused by incorrect medication, we propose iMec System to promote correct medication. The system is composed of iMec (intelligent medicine case), the Ubiquitous Sensors, iMec Server, and the Home Robot. The iMec detects medicine...
As one of the mobile robots, intelligent wheelchair is used to assist the daily life of the old people and the handicapped. Thanks to be short of systematical design and a method and tool of earlier stage analysis, there are more control innovation than functional innovation about intelligent wheelchair in market. This study explodes the research situation and design feature, and improve the KISS...
Paper presents a practical experience from testing intelligent devices for household aimed for mainstream usage in practical life. They are developed with intelligent functions that make them accessible and usable also for people with weakened sensor and physical abilities, including people with impairments and elderly people. Testing process was conducted in Padeborn, Germany, in C-lab in cooperation...
Recently the problem of providing effective and appropriate healthcare to elderly and disable people is an important field in relative to the aging of population problems. The objective of information and communication technologies (ICT) is to focus on the new technologies the medical environments, so that it can provide management to accelerate and improve the clinical process. Our contribution is...
After the ten years rise of ageing population in Taiwan, it has increased the population rate of elders to nearly 10% in year 2009. Since 1990, the day-time aged care service has been implemented over decades in Taiwan. The social welfare has been attended and been actively promoted among the communities with the aged day-care service (ADCS) in recent years. The successful implementation of the ADCS...
To respond to the critical needs of the aging society in Taiwan, the relationship between the intelligent environment technology and recreational behavior of the elderly needs to be examined. The purpose of this study is to define the level of demand of the intelligent environment technology on the elderly. To understand the intelligent environment technology, the researchers reviewed literature,...
This study follows ISISEMD through a phenomenological approach of investigating the experience of the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) for someone with dementia. The aim is to accentuate the Assistive Technology (AT) from the end user perspective. This paper supports that older adults and those with dementia should no longer be an overlooked population and how the HCI community can learn from their...
We have developed a remote system for monitoring heart rate, respiration rate and movement behavior of at-home elderly people who are living alone. The system consists of a 40 kHz ultrasonic transmitter and receiver, linear integrated circuits, a low-power 8-bit single chip microcomputer and an Internet server computer. The 40 kHz ultrasonic transmitter and receiver are installed into a bed mattress...
Most web applications with user interaction via forms have deficiencies with regard to intellectual/cognitive impairments of the users. The DIADEM project has provided remedies and developed a trial system offering accessible and personalized adaptive interactive online services which suit in particular the needs of elderly users. The focus of this paper is on the system's technical aspects, discussing...
The design of an experimental AGPS-based (Assisted Global Positioning System) elderly tracking system is described. The system includes: a wearable AGPS terminal with HSPA two-way communication capability and designed for 10 days of continuous battery operation, a GPS assistance data server with reference GPS stations, location database and server, application server, and Web server and client. Assistance...
The nursing homes, where home adaptations (environmental improvements) and assistive technology (AT) are provided, represent an increasingly attractive mean of helping elderly people to maintain their independence and enhancing their quality of life. Doctors and specialists are involved in order to provide personalized health care services to elderly people so as to have a better life and treatment...
Penetration of the Internet has paved the way for the interactive video communication at home. Videos, which subjectively show entire views and give comprehensive overviews at a glance, serve as storable media and information contained in such excellently informative media has been increasingly stored as video image databases. Nevertheless, videos also have some disadvantages, for example, watching...
Constructing computerised medical systems that can deal with the complexity of Home Care units is a very challenging task. On the one hand, many kinds of actors intervene in the care processes, making it necessary to adopt a distributed approach. On the other hand, although there are some available geriatric guidelines, the usual Home Care patients suffer from a set of co-morbid conditions and diseases,...
Health monitoring system is a crucial element which helps to the active prevention and effective treatment of the chronic illness with the worldwide population aging. This paper presents a health monitoring system based on Pocket PC for community aging residents according to the status in China. The test result of the prototype is good and it has some referenced value when implementing the community...
In this paper we propose a mobile system for monitoring of moving objects, namely tracking elderly people. This system aims to provide help for people with some kind of memory loss disease, namely Alzheimerpsilas. It is capable of providing the geographic position of the person carrying the mobile equipment, both by a patient request (pressing a key to send a message) or anytime trough a webpage consult...
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