scholarly journals Physiological and Behavior Monitoring Systems for Smart Healthcare Environments: A Review

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 2186
Author(s):  
Mariana Jacob Rodrigues ◽  
Octavian Postolache ◽  
Francisco Cercas
Keyword(s):  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Body Motion ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Optimization ◽  
And Behavior

Healthcare optimization has become increasingly important in the current era, where numerous challenges are posed by population ageing phenomena and the demand for higher quality of the healthcare services. The implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) in the healthcare ecosystem has been one of the best solutions to address these challenges and therefore to prevent and diagnose possible health impairments in people. The remote monitoring of environmental parameters and how they can cause or mediate any disease, and the monitoring of human daily activities and physiological parameters are among the vast applications of IoT in healthcare, which has brought extensive attention of academia and industry. Assisted and smart tailored environments are possible with the implementation of such technologies that bring personal healthcare to any individual, while living in their preferred environments. In this paper we address several requirements for the development of such environments, namely the deployment of physiological signs monitoring systems, daily activity recognition techniques, as well as indoor air quality monitoring solutions. The machine learning methods that are most used in the literature for activity recognition and body motion analysis are also referred. Furthermore, the importance of physical and cognitive training of the elderly population through the implementation of exergames and immersive environments is also addressed.

scholarly journals Happy Elderly Through Elderly School: Collaboration in Empowering Elderly in Bandung City

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Rike Anggun Artisa ◽  
Cintantya Andhita Dara Kirana
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
School Program ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
School Collaboration ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Behavior

The development of a paradigm in which the government no longer the only actor in charge of public affairs opens greater opportunities for the elderly to get attention. The elderly become a group with vulnerable conditions, from physical, social, mental, and spiritual aspects. The elderly school was formed through collaboration as a form of caring for the elderly in Bandung City. The elderly school is intended to improve the knowledge and behavior of the elderly towards health, increase the index of happiness, improve the quality of life and productivity, and increase independence from physical, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects. The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the factors that drive collaboration, the collaborative process, and the benefits of collaboration. The research method used is a qualitative research method with a descriptive approach. The results show that the collaboration in the elderly school program is driven by the same goals and interests related to empowering the elderly, having appropriate resources with their fields and functions, and getting benefits from their involvement. Then, the collaborative process begins with a dialogue to build trust among stakeholders to build commitment to this program. Collaboration in senior schools is not only beneficial for the elderly but also for the actors involved.

scholarly journals A comparison of the levels of satisfaction with the medical services provided by primary healthcare centers in selected communes in Lubelskie Voivodeship

2016 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
Daria Przybylska ◽  
Piotr Przybylski ◽  
Bartłomiej Drop ◽  
Krzysztof Czarnocki ◽  
Wojciech Przybylski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family Medicine ◽  
Primary Healthcare ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Primary Type ◽  
Primary Healthcare Centers

Abstract Introduction. Family medicine remains the primary type of medical services in Poland and it is supposed to treat both individual patients and the society as a whole. Due to the growing commercialization of the health service, most primary healthcare centers have transformed into non-public healthcare facilities. The public ones (called SPZOZ in Polish) account only for a small fraction of the whole number of primary healthcare facilities. The quality of medical services provided by such facilities, as patients see it, remains one of the key elements determining the development of family medicine centers. Aim. The aim of this paper was to assess patient satisfaction levels regarding the healthcare services they received in two primary healthcare institutions, both of the NZOZ and SPZOZ type, in a small town located close to Lublin. Material and methods. An anonymous survey was filled out by 30 patients of both a public and non-public healthcare center located in Niemce (Niemce Commune, Lublin District). The quality of services was assessed using an original questionnaire in the form of a poll. Results. The results obtained indicate a clear relationship between one’s trust to the physician, diagnosis accuracy and visiting the particular center again, in order to continue the treatment. For older subjects, it was nurses’ kindness and politeness that was the most important. The elderly appreciated the kindness and politeness of the nurses in particular. No significant differences were found between the institutions in respect of the overall perception of satisfaction with services. In terms of infrastructure assessment, the majority of positive feedback was provided for NZOZ. Conclusions. The findings above suggest that it is essential to conduct surveys on a regular basis, in order to check patients’ assessment of the service quality in various institutons.

scholarly journals Health Monitoring using Edge Cognitive Computing Based Smart Health Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5356-5361
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Cognitive Computing ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
The People ◽  
Remote Healthcare ◽  
Health Progress ◽  
Remote Viewing

With an enhancement in technology and development of sensors, they have decided to concern the latest technology in particular areas to increases the Quality of their life. One of the important section of research that has seen an agreement of the latest technology is the healthcare. the people who need healthcare services they have to suffer for long process, to reduce the problem As a result, basically this complete technology would try to resole the healthcare issues. The main goal of the project is to develop a remote healthcare system. It have three main parts. The first and most important section in this process is to detecting the patient current health status using this sensors. second important thing is sending data to cloud storage and the last section is to get the detected data for remote viewing. Remote viewing of the data provided to the doctor will able to monitor a patients health progress aboard from hospital places. The Edge-Cognitive- Computing-based (ECC-based) smart healthcare system. This technology is able to check also distinguish and detect the current status of patient using this sensors. It also accommodate the computing resource appropriation of the complete edge computing network expansive to the health different percentage of each user. The experiments show that the ECC-based healthcare system provide a exceed user background and try to improvement the computing resources moderately, as well as consequentially improving in the durability rates of patients in emergency

scholarly journals Adaptive error compensation for primary me-ters of environmental monitoring systems

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-162
Author(s):  
I.A. Skatkov ◽  
◽  
D.V. Moiseev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Critical Energy ◽  
Monitoring Systems ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Chemical Production ◽  
Separate Model ◽  
Adaptive Parameters ◽  
Adaptive Correction

The paper focuses on the construction of separate model representations in the study of reliability of data obtained from environmental monitoring systems. Modern systems for monitoring environmental parameters are complex complexes of different technical and software tools. Special requirements to the quality of monitoring systems arise when they are used as subsystems in systems of responsible application, monitoring the state of critical energy facilities, mining, transport, and chemical production processes. One of the main reasons for reducing the reliability of such data is degradation processes in the primary meter, which are often installed in aggressive environments with an unsatisfactory set of parameters in the places where they are located. As a result of degradation effects, there is a significant decrease in the accuracy of primary meters, up to complete failures. An approach is described that allows increasing the duration of continuous operation of the system for monitoring environmental parameters. The basis of this approach is adaptive correction of primary meter readings in the event of a decrease in their accuracy due to degradation failures. It is noted that in order to identify interdependencies in such a system, it is necessary to conduct a simulation of the adaptation process in the system for monitoring environmental parameters, and the task is to create such a model. The structure and equations of such a system are proposed, and the task of creating a simulation model of the system is set. Thus, the main task of the proposed approach is to extend the intervals between repairs of environmental monitoring systems. This is achieved by extending the service life of primary meters in the event of their degradation failures. This resource extension is achieved by creating an additional feedback channel with adaptive parameters in the system.

scholarly journals Development of fall detection and activity recognition using threshold based method and neural network

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 1338
Author(s):  
Sai Siong Jun ◽  
Hafiz Rashidi Ramli ◽  
Azura Che Soh ◽  
Noor Ain Kamsani ◽  
Raja Kamil Raja Ahmad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Fall Detection ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Severe Injuries ◽  
Series Of Experiments

Falls are dangerous and contribute to over 80% of injury-related hospitalization especially amongst the elderly. Hence, fall detection is important for preventing severe injuries and accidental deaths. Meanwhile, recognizing human activity is important for monitoring health status and quality of life as it can be applied in geriatric care and healthcare in general. This research presents the development of a fall detection and human activity recognition system using Threshold Based Method (TBM) and Neural Network (NN). Intentional forward fall and six other activities of daily living (ADLs), which include running, jumping, walking, sitting, lying, and standing are performed by 15 healthy volunteers in a series of experiments. There are four important stages involved in fall detection and ADL recognition, which are signal filtering, segmentation, features extraction and classification. For classification, TBM achieved an accuracy of 98.41% and 95.40% for fall detection and activity recognition respectively whereas NN achieved an accuracy of 97.78% and 96.77% for fall detection and activity recognition respectively.

Comprehensive Ontological Model for Senior Wellness Activity Recognition in Smart Homes

2020 ◽  
pp. 148-167
Author(s):  
Hajar Khallouki ◽  
Rachid Benlamri ◽  
Abdulsalalm Yassine
Keyword(s):  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Smart Home ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Smart Homes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Patient Profile ◽  
Ontological Model ◽  
Watching Tv ◽  
Lying Down

There are several works in the field of smart homes for healthcare, with different types of sensors used to monitor medical, behavioral and environmental parameters for patients. In the context of smart home for the elderly, the use of sensors needs to be adapted to respect the privacy of elders and to work passively without the need for caregiver assistance. Most research in this area focused on activity recognition (e.g. eating, sleeping, watching TV, etc.) which may be defined as the identification of a sequence of actions (e.g. using microwave, lying down, etc.). In this chapter, we propose a comprehensive ontological model for well-being activity recognition in smart home. Our approach takes into account different aspects of the well-being context such as patient profile, object being used to perform the activity, the time of running the activity, its location, etc. In order to validate the proposed ontology and reason on it, we perform a set of queries and inference rules.

scholarly journals Health Status and the Demand for Healthcare among the Elderly in the Rural Quoc-Oai District of Hanoi in Vietnam

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung-Sook Bang ◽  
Sunghee H. Tak ◽  
Juhwan Oh ◽  
Jinseon Yi ◽  
Soo-Young Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Functional Limitations ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Gastrointestinal Diseases ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Related Quality

Background. Vietnam is experiencing an unprecedented demographic transition. Its proportion of elderly people is growing rapidly. Objective. This study explored the health status and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of rural elderly Vietnamese and assessed their needs for healthcare services. Design. This study used a survey with stratified proportion sampling and quota assignment. In 2016, data was collected from 713 people in the rural Quoc-Oai district of Hanoi aged 60 or older. Results. The mean age of the respondents was 70.9. Both self-rated health status and functional status decreased with age. Women reported more functional limitations than men. Musculoskeletal disorders were the most frequently reported chronic diseases, followed by hypertension, gastrointestinal diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. Age, self-rated health status, BMIs, and the number of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) were found to be significant determinants of HRQoL, after controlling for socioeconomic effects. More than half the respondents requested more healthcare information, particularly on disease management. Conclusions. Vietnam’s healthcare system is being challenged to make health services easily accessible and meet the growing needs for chronic illness management, risk reduction, promoting healthy lifestyles, and improving the aging population’s quality of life.

Health Conditions, Medication and Hospitalisation Preferences of Elderly in Kerala

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-324
Author(s):  
V. P. Sanitha ◽  
J. K. Parida ◽  
I. C. Awasthi
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Public Provision ◽  
Marginalised Groups ◽  
The Government

This article intends to study the health conditions, medication and hospitalisation preferences, and the determinants of medication preferences of the elderly population in Kerala. It is based on the primary data collected from a sample of 801 households and three old-age homes (OAHs) in three districts of the state, namely Kozhikode, Ernakulum and Trivandrum. The evidence suggests that the elderly population are vulnerable to various chronic diseases and they tend to spend more on healthcare. In the absence of public provision of effective healthcare services in Kerala, the elderly spend out-of-pocket on health expenses and choose private hospitals for effective and better treatment. However, those who prefer government hospitals mostly belong to poor and marginalised groups, including the inmates of OAHs. With regard to the type of medicines, the elderly often prefer Ayurveda and Homeopathy to Allopathy medicines. Based on these findings, we suggest that the government intervention in terms of more health care facilities and health insurance schemes for the elderly is necessary to improve their quality of life.

scholarly journals Quality of life and associated factors amongst older adults in a remote community, Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saurav Chandra Acharya Samadarshi ◽  
Pimsurang Taechaboonsermsak ◽  
Mathuros Tipayamongkholgul ◽  
Korravarn Yodmai
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Remote Community ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Government

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to assess the quality of life (QOL) of older adults and explore factors associated with it.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional study was conducted in a remote community in Nepal. A total of 671 older adults aged 60 years were enrolled in the study. QOL was measured by WHOQOL-OLD questionnaire. Data were analyzed using multiple logistic regression.FindingsMost participants were female (53.0%), illiterate (70.6%), married (64.2%) and living with family (59.3%). Among participants, 82.4% had fair QOL, and the autonomy domain received the lowest score (average = 10.98). After adjusting the model, the elderly aged <70 years had 11.07 times better QOL (aOR = 11.070; 95% CI = 2.546–48.123), elderly with high sufficient income had 2.73 times better QOL (aOR = 2.738; 95% CI = 1.183–6.337) and elderly free from depression had 9.45 times better QOL (aOR = 9.452; 95% CI = 3.466–25.773) compared to their counterparts. The elderly receiving social support had 9.97 times better QOL than those who did not (aOR = 9.976; 95% CI = 3.152–31.574), and those able to afford healthcare services had 4.69 times better QOL than those who could not afford it (aOR = 4.694; 95% CI = 1.046–21.063).Originality/valueThe five predictors – age, income sufficiency, depression, social support and healthcare service affordability – were found to significantly affect QOL. This study suggests special care strategies for vulnerable older adults addressing the issues that affect geriatric depression. This article provides relevant information to the government to consider increment of income, encourage family and community for social support and make health services affordable for older adults.

scholarly journals Innovative Forms of Care for Seniors in Rural Areas of Poland

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Sylwia Michalska ◽  
Anna Rosa ◽  
Ryszard Kamiński
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Total Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Social Welfare System ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
Ageing Issue

Ageing is an issue faced by the majority of the European countries, including Poland. Due to their dissimilarity there is a need to apply different approaches to ageing in urban and rural areas. The population aged 65+ is expected to increase by nearly 60% by 2035, and the percentage of that group within the total population is estimated to grow from the current 14% to 22%. These demographic changes will bring new challenges to social welfare system. The need for social care and healthcare services will grow. In order to limit the consequences of this phenomenon action must be taken to allow elderly people to continue their careers, ensure that they are active members of their communities and that the quality of lives does not worsen. This article identifies new and innovative solutions in rural areas to support the elderly inhabitants whose independence is limited and keep them actively involved in community activities, and in order to ensure quality of life. The authors provide a detailed description of two non-standard solutions to deal with the ageing issue. These include social farms and rural hospices at home, both of which have already been implemented in some rural areas in Poland.

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