DocumentCode
1604163
Title
Elder Care Architecture
Author
Marcelino, Isabel ; Barroso, João ; Cruz, José Bulas ; Pereira, António
Author_Institution
INOV-ESTG Leiria, Morro do Lena-Alto do Vieiro, Leiria
fYear
2008
Firstpage
349
Lastpage
354
Abstract
As we observe society in our days, we can see that people live longer; this means that we have an older population. As we know, elder are more likely to have health issues. The special needs presented by elder are gaining a major concern from all of us. Another tendency of our society is the lack of time that people demonstrate and, as a consequence, the lack of time reflects when families can´t take care of their own elders. Many solutions are being presented in order to solve this problem. Some of them are taking advantage of the new technology developments in body sensor network area. In this paper we proposed an architecture of a system called elder care. The elder care solution has two primary goals: monitoring vital signs, sending alerts to family and specialized help and provide a social network in order to wrap all elder to avoid social isolation.
Keywords
biomedical telemetry; body area networks; geriatrics; health care; body sensor network area; elder care architecture; older population; social network; vital sign monitoring; Aging; Biology; Biomedical monitoring; Blood pressure; Body sensor networks; Conference management; Costs; Remote monitoring; Senior citizens; Technology management;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Systems and Networks Communications, 2008. ICSNC '08. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location
Sliema
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3371-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSNC.2008.66
Filename
4693695
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