• DocumentCode
    1954086
  • Title

    Elder Care Modular Solution

  • Author

    Marcelino, Isabel ; Pereira, António

  • Author_Institution
    INOV, ESTG Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    20-25 Sept. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    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 older population to avoid social isolation. In this paper we will show the methodology used to obtain Elder Care´s architecture and point some guidelines to our present work: Elder Care´s implementation.
  • Keywords
    geriatrics; medical administrative data processing; patient monitoring; social networking (online); wireless sensor networks; Elder Care modular solution; body area network; health monitoring; social network; vital signs; wireless sensors networks; Body area networks; Guidelines; Hospitals; Keyboards; Mice; Patient monitoring; Security; Senior citizens; Space technology; Wireless sensor networks; body area network; health monitoring; wireless sensors networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services, 2009. CENTRIC '09. Second International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Porto
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4781-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-7695-3776-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CENTRIC.2009.8
  • Filename
    5291031