Abstract
With a reducing fertility rate and the increase in life expectancy in Taiwan, the changing structure of the population has pushed Taiwan into an aged society. The demand for elderly care environments is rapidly increasing. However, to prevent an illness for the elderly is better than to treat it. Monitoring of an individual’s health is required as a periodic activity. Using wireless technology combined with physiological measurement techniques and home care equipment can assist elderly individuals to promote health and the health care service at home. In this research, a wireless sensor network has been adopted to develop context aware health promotion for an elderly-care system. The system is divided into three subsystems: the IoT-based physiological information subsystem, the context awareness-based service subsystem, and the elderly nutrition diet and health promotion subsystem. In this system, users also can select an Aging Diet Module or an Aging Exercise Module in our app. After the user selects the Aging Diet Module, the system will record and give suggestions. Moreover, the system can integrate long-term elderly diet and exercise records, and then, assist elderly to complete personal nutrition assessment and health management. The research goal is to construct a health promotion system utilizing IoT technology. In this paper, the system’s functions and implementation approaches are introduced.
Highlights
Issues based on advances in medical technology coupled with science and technology and economic and work pressures have resulted in decreasing fertility rates in Taiwan in recent years and the average life expectancy of its citizens to continually increase
The Internet of Things (IoT) technology used in this paper provides a comprehensive, integrated care system based on context awareness of elderly-oriented health care promotion systems
Most of the home care systems available on the market today are focused on health care and medical protection
Summary
Issues based on advances in medical technology coupled with science and technology and economic and work pressures have resulted in decreasing fertility rates in Taiwan in recent years and the average life expectancy of its citizens to continually increase. Health promotion strategies for the elderly generally have the basic aims of maintaining or improving self-care [4]. It can reduce unnecessary mobility for the elderly (e.g., to visit doctors), for sure helping to transform to more sustainable mobility This system is mainly divided into three subsystems, namely: (1) IoT-based physiological information subsystem: a wireless sensor monitoring physiological information subsystem will collect elderly physiological data and information to provide real time and appropriate home health care. The user-oriented system is programmed for the elderly, allowing users to enter personal data directly into their personal smartphones This nutritional diet and health promotion subsystem can recommend to the elderly exclusive daily nutritional diet recommendations based on personal information. The system can integrate long-term elderly diet and exercise records, and assist the elderly to complete personal nutrition assessments and health management
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