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Long-Term Care (LTC) Monitoring System for Caregivers Based on Wireless Sensing Technology

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Continued decline in fertility rates and increased life expectancy cause serious population ageing in the world. As the older population increases, the demand of caregivers increases also, long-term care (LTC) is now to become a serious topic for each country who is facing this problem undoubtedly. In Taiwan, caregivers who need to work 16–24 h a day are maybe in the majority. Under the influence of prolonged over-exertion, high repetition or bad posture probably make caregivers in the risk of waist injuries. In this article, a LTC monitoring system for caregivers based on wireless sensing is designed. Through the change of waist bending rate, the system can remind caregivers to keep in a correct posture. In addition to this, caregivers can also track their own personal visualization chart via a mobile app at any time.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Asia University, Taichung City, Taiwan

    Hsing-Chung Chen, Mei-He Jiang & Tzu-Ya Chen

  2. Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung City, Taiwan

    Hsing-Chung Chen

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Department of Electronics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Peter Hellinckx

  3. Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

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Chen, HC., Jiang, MH., Chen, TY. (2020). Long-Term Care (LTC) Monitoring System for Caregivers Based on Wireless Sensing Technology. In: Barolli, L., Hellinckx, P., Enokido, T. (eds) Advances on Broad-Band Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications. BWCCA 2019. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 97. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33506-9_54

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