The Elderly Care System
摘要
Population aging is an inevitable future trend. In the era of rapidly advancing technologies, using technology to enhance healthcare services, particularly in the care of older adults and assisting them to age successfully, is a need for urgent action. The purpose of this study is to build an Elderly Monitoring System using a wireless network or mobile network to set up a service platform for elderly care. This system platform integrates information technology into elderly healthcare to assist older adults living alone and enhance caregivers' care ability and thus, improving quality of life of older adults and caregivers. Continuous monitoring conditions for older adults or care recipients who do not need everyday medical assistance will help caregivers or family members to effectively monitor the conditions of older adults or care recipients, and thus, decreasing the sudden emergency conditions that may occur. The system also gives older adults or care recipients a sense of security while being respected. The paper test result shows that the devices used in the Elderly Monitoring System can send out alerts or distress signals in real time when detecting abnormal parameters. Also, the system can improve quality of elderly care and reduce the workload of caregivers.