Title :
Elder Care Modular Solution
Author :
Marcelino, Isabel ; Pereira, António
Author_Institution :
INOV, ESTG Leiria, Leiria, Portugal
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CENTRIC.2009.8
