The Infona portal uses cookies, i.e. strings of text saved by a browser on the user's device. The portal can access those files and use them to remember the user's data, such as their chosen settings (screen view, interface language, etc.), or their login data. By using the Infona portal the user accepts automatic saving and using this information for portal operation purposes. More information on the subject can be found in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. By closing this window the user confirms that they have read the information on cookie usage, and they accept the privacy policy and the way cookies are used by the portal. You can change the cookie settings in your browser.
Supporting ageing in place and staying at home, delaying institutionalization, lightening the caregivers' burden, improving the elderly quality of life are as many expectations that TeleHealthCare aims at coming up to. This paper proposes a method for Telemonitoring to detect abnormal changes in behavior which may lead to an early entrance in dependency. This method allows to detect and quantify a...
This paper presents an adaptive notification framework which allows to optimally deliver and handle multimedia requests and alerts in a nursing home. This framework is operated with various applications (e.g., health alert, medicine reminder, and activity proposition) and has been evaluated with different real end-users (elderly resident and medical staff) in a pilot site. Results of these evaluations...
This paper describes ongoing work in analyzing sensor data logged in the homes of seniors. A visualization of motion sensor data in the form of a density map which uses different colors to show levels of activity was introduced previously. For evaluating changes in activity level and periodicity of life style, we introduce a dissimilarity measurement of density maps based on co-occurrence matrices...
Medication adherence is important to patients who suffer from chronic disease. Regular medication activity reduces the cost of caring disease and prohibits the worsening of disease condition. To support patients taking medicine correctly, we developed a medication assistance system which alarms medication situation through multimedia messages and help patients to take a medicine. To enable the system...
Quality of life a of population represents a wide range of opportunities for personalized technologies supporting all areas of information and communication technologies (ICT), mainly wireless communications. In fact, most national policies are considering these communication and information systems as the basic elements for the emerging healthcare and social needs currently under serious economic...
Rapid changes in technology have provided many challenges for the medical and educational systems of Japan, a modern, cosmopolitan country with a sizable and sometimes isolated rural population. We have developed a communications system in an attempt to solve some of the problems created by this social division. Herein, we show examples of some possible uses of this MuTA system, with examples of our...
The medical costs for elderly people in Taiwan have increased largely due to the increasing number of aging people in the country. To meet the goals and requirements of the National Health Insurance (NHI), designing and providing a program which would reduce the unnecessary medical services demanded by elderly people is needed. In this research, a conceptual service model of the telecare system applied...
One major challenge to successful aging is the capability to preserve health, or from another perspective to avoid disease. Unfortunately, a large percentage of the elderly people are living with chronic diseases or disabilities. Home care technologies and other emerging technologies have the potential to play a major role in home-based health care approach. The main goal of the presented research...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.