Application of Smart Wearable Devices in Elderly Care (original) (raw)

A wearable device for the elderly: A case study in Malaysia

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia, 2014

Malaysia is expected to reach population ageing in year 2021. There are many ways to tackle with the problems of population ageing and technology is one of them in supporting elderly in their daily life. However, elderly have problem when using technology because of their decreasing ability. In this research, we carried out 2 interviews with different groups of elderly to identify their problems of using technology, and their daily activities based on their location in a house. Based on the finding, we listed down all the important requirements in designing a wearable device. They are (a) Replacing Graphical User Interface (GUI) with Tangible User Interface (TUI) (b) Considering mental model of elderly when designing interaction and user interface, and (c) Able to provide implicit interaction to elderly.

Research on the Application of Wearable Devices for Aging in the Context of Intelligent Governance

IJMRAP, 2022

With the booming development of mobile information technology such as data interaction and Internet of Things, the fields involved in wearable devices are also constantly expanding. In the process of iteration, the product is constantly integrated with new technology, and has played an excellent performance in real-time monitoring, remote monitoring and other aspects. However, the health risks of the elderly in their daily life are mainly due to the difficulty of round-the-clock care. The emergence of wearable devices fills this gap and provides a guarantee for the intelligent management of the aging population. Based on the actual needs of pension services under the background of intelligent governance, this paper analyzes the practical application and reflection of existing wearable devices on aging management.

Assistive Technology for Elders: Wireless Intelligent Healthcare Gadget

2011 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, 2011

Improving the quality of life for the elderly persons and giving them the proper care at the right time is the responsibility of the younger generation. But due to lack of awareness on proper elder care, unavoidable busy schedule etc. the elderly population is seem to be quite ignored. In such a scenario we are trying to find an amicable solution to this problem using a compact and user friendly system design. The proposed system is a compact device which has various wearable sensors all attached inside a glove. It has a process flow controller module and a communication control module. These modules perform together to excite an alert mechanism to the relatives or to the doctors via an SMS or a voice call to their mobile phones, whenever some critical situations arise. The system measures the heart rate, oxygen content in blood, body temperature and the pressure of the elderly person, which are the important parameters for a proper diagnosis.

Assistive and wearable technology for elderly

Bulletin of Social Informatics Theory and Application, 2018

The current technology is able to assist the daily activities of elderly without depend on others. That’s because the physical condition of the elderly began to decreasing. The decreased physical conditions can include slow body movements, lack of balance of the body, decreased coordination of movement between limbs, memory loss, and decreased capacity to process information. With those many limitations possessed by elderly, they used technology to help them. There are two kind of technology that used to help elderly, those technology are wearable technology and assistive technology. This paper will discussed about some wearable technology and assistive technology that can help the problems experienced by elderly.

Wearable Health Monitoring System for Older Adults in a Smart Home Environment

2021 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), 2021

The advent of IoT has enabled the design of connected and integrated smart health monitoring systems. These smart health monitoring systems could be realized in a smart home context to render long-term care to the elderly population. In this paper, we present the design of a wearable health monitoring system suitable for older adults in a smart home context. The proposed system offers solutions to monitor the stress, blood pressure, and location of an individual within a smart home environment. The stress detection model proposed in this work uses Electrodermal Activity (EDA), Photoplethysmogram (PPG), and Skin Temperature (ST) sensors embedded in a smart wristband for detecting physiological stress. The stress detection model is trained and tested using stress labels obtained from salivary cortisol which is a clinically established biomarker for physiological stress. A voice-based prototype is also implemented and the feasibility of the proposed system for integration in a smart home environment is analyzed by simulating a data acquisition and streaming scenario. We have also proposed a blood pressure estimation model using PPG signal and advanced regression techniques for integration with the stress detection model in the wearable health monitoring system. Finally, the design of a voice-assisted indoor location system is proposed for integration with the proposed system within a smart home environment. The proposed wearable health monitoring system is an important direction to realize a smart home environment with extensive diagnostic capabilities so that such a system could be useful for rendering long-term and personalized care to the aging population in the comfort of their home.

Smart Watch for Elderly Person

International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET), 2022

In India ,the current senior citizen population of 130 million is expected to grow more than double to 300 million to constitute 20 percent of the population[1].With a rapidly growing 60-plus population, India is faced with herculean task of providing senior-friendly urban infrastructure. Around 64% of adult fall prey to depression and loneliness in urban area. There is also been a significant increase in crime rate against senior citizens being left at home alone.Also,the senior population is most exposed and vulnerable to Covid-19 infections and fall ill often. This paper aims to develop a smartwatch equipped with health monitoring and fall detection techniques for elderly population using a microcontroller's main component in used in this is an Arduino which is a microcontroller equipped/connected with sensors which can detect the health parameters such as pulse rate, body temperature etc. It also been equipped with fall detection technique which can detect the fall of user wearing the smartwatch and can send SOS to the caretakers concerned with that user.All the previous smartwatches are developed keeping in mind the general population, however this device is solely dedicated to the senior population and act as a health monitoring device.

"Remote Health Monitoring of elder using Wearable Sensor."

International Journal for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET), 2022

Wearable physiological monitoring devices are used to monitor the health status of a Patient in Intensive Care Units (ICU). These systems are wired everywhere. A wireless Physiological parameter monitoring system is presented in this paper. Literature review carried out in the area of wearable physiological monitoring systems. The proposed system includes sensors for continuous collection and evaluation of physiological parameters. A wireless personal area network has been introduced for reliable transmission of physiological information. The hardware design of this patient monitoring system is based on 8051 microcontrollers. Microcontroller acts as the gateway to ZigBee and GSM module. ZigBee wireless communication module has the advantage of lower power consumption which is attractive for portable applications. This system provides safe and accurate monitoring. It also gives the freedom of movement. The proposed system can be used to monitor the physiological condition of a person in out of hospital condition also.

wearable sensors: an elders need

The life expectancy of people is improving with better health care, medicines and rapid scientific development. According to the United Nations Population Division (UN 2011), India's 60 and older population is expected around 323 million people, a number greater than the total U.S. population in 2012. An important challenge of providing health care to this large number of elders is of a great concern. Restructuring health care systems toward proactive managing of wellness rather than illness, and focusing on prevention and early detection of disease emerge as the answers to these problems. Wearable systems with context awareness for continuous health monitoring are a key technology in helping the transition to more proactive and affordable and scientific healthcare. In our paper we lay a basis understanding and approaches for implementing context awareness in a Body sensor network for proactive health management for elders.

Measurement of Elder Health Parameters and the Gadget Designs for Continuous Monitoring

Improving the quality of life for the elderly persons and giving them the proper care at the right time is the responsibility of the younger generation. Due to lack of awareness on proper elder care, unavoidable busy schedule etc. the elderly population is seem to be quite ignored. A simple, compact and user-friendlyelectronic gadget for continuous monitoring of elder health parameters is the need of the hour. Day by day the menace of weakening health and chances of skin related problems, bed sores etc are becoming critical in case of bed ridden patients. This paper analyses the old age diseases and the parameters to be monitored. Moreover, a detailed study is provided on the design of the gadget-placement of sensors, wired/wireless technology, Android applications etc. Based on the analysis a simple, comfortable, low cost gadget to monitor elder health and report any critical condition is proposed.

Supporting elderly homecare with smartwatches: advantages and drawbacks

The demographic transition in industrialized countries leads to a growth of elderly population. This population is more prone to chronic diseases and puts an increasing pressure on the healthcare system. One way to reduce the cost associated to the support of this population is to improve its autonomy to keep it independent as long as possible. Many assistive technologies and environmental interventions can be implemented to achieve this goal. In this paper, we are looking at the advantages and drawbacks of smartwatches as a platform to support elderly at home. By doing a literature search and by performing expert interview, we have identified the advantages of this technology to insure the success of promising applications as well as the obstacles that should be gone beyond. Among the advantages, the ubiquity of smartwatches makes possible a continuous medical surveillance, harder to achieve with other devices. Moreover, the versatility of smartwatches provides an appropriate ground to implement a centralized platform providing multiples services facilitating elderly homecare. However, the physical constraints of the watches such as the tiny screen size, the small connectors and the limited power autonomy can be significant barriers to the adoption of these tools. In conclusion, beside the actual homecare system, improving the autonomy and the independence of elderly at home can be leveraged by a combination of environmental and assistive technologies. Smartwatches have definitively the potential to become close assistants to help elderly in their daily life. However, this will not be achieved without dedicating a significant effort in designing appropriate user interfaces and certainly dedicated hardware to respond to the constraints associated with potential physical and cognitive impairments.