Smart Homes for Elderly Healthcare—Recent Advances and Research Challenges
| Autor: | Emad Aghayi, Hamidreza Memarzadeh-Tehran, Tapas Mondal, Zhibo Pang, M. Jamal Deen, Sumit Majumder, Moein Noferesti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Population ageing
Telemedicine smart home telehealth Internet privacy smart care Review 02 engineering and technology Telehealth lcsh:Chemical technology Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Gerontechnology gerontechnology Personal hygiene health monitoring Health care 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Humans lcsh:TP1-1185 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation Aged business.industry 1. No poverty aged people Information technology 020206 networking & telecommunications Home Care Services humanities Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics 3. Good health Life expectancy 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing telemedicine Business Delivery of Health Care |
| Zdroj: | Sensors, Vol 17, Iss 11, p 2496 (2017) Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) |
| ISSN: | 1424-8220 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/s17112496 |
| Popis: | Advancements in medical science and technology, medicine and public health coupled with increased consciousness about nutrition and environmental and personal hygiene have paved the way for the dramatic increase in life expectancy globally in the past several decades. However, increased life expectancy has given rise to an increasing aging population, thus jeopardizing the socio-economic structure of many countries in terms of costs associated with elderly healthcare and wellbeing. In order to cope with the growing need for elderly healthcare services, it is essential to develop affordable, unobtrusive and easy-to-use healthcare solutions. Smart homes, which incorporate environmental and wearable medical sensors, actuators, and modern communication and information technologies, can enable continuous and remote monitoring of elderly health and wellbeing at a low cost. Smart homes may allow the elderly to stay in their comfortable home environments instead of expensive and limited healthcare facilities. Healthcare personnel can also keep track of the overall health condition of the elderly in real-time and provide feedback and support from distant facilities. In this paper, we have presented a comprehensive review on the state-of-the-art research and development in smart home based remote healthcare technologies. |
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