Prevention and management of risk conditions of elderly people through the home environment monitoring

L. Pastor-Sanz*, M. M. Fernández-Rodríguez, M. F. Cabrera-Umpiérrez, M. T. Arredondo, E. Bekiaris

*Corresponding author for this work

    Abstract

    During the last decades the life expectancy has increased dramatically bringing about an ageing population. Additionally, elderly from some areas of Europe experience geographic and social isolation, which lead to growth of risk conditions. The usage of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to prevent and manage risk situations linked with age related health problems is oriented towards the development of helpful and non-invasive systems. Within this field, the REMOTE project aims at becoming a reference point in the deployment of predictive and self-taught platforms. By acquisition of context and health data the system will have enough information to perform several daily life supporting tasks without user's interaction.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationXII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2010, MEDICON 2010
    Number of pages4
    Publication date11 Oct 2010
    Pages905-908
    ISBN (Print)9783642130380
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 11 Oct 2010
    Event12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, MEDICON 2010 - Chalkidiki, Greece
    Duration: 27 May 201030 May 2010

    Conference

    Conference12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, MEDICON 2010
    Country/TerritoryGreece
    CityChalkidiki
    Period27/05/201030/05/2010
    SeriesIFMBE Proceedings
    Volume29
    ISSN1680-0737

    Keywords

    • Elderly
    • home environment
    • multi-agent
    • Service Oriented Architecture

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