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Guardian: A Pervasive Environment to Monitor Elderly People in Medical Treatment at Home

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Inclusive Society: Health and Wellbeing in the Community, and Care at Home (ICOST 2013)

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The worldwide population has been aging at an accelerated rate. The main factor has been attributed to this process is the life expectancy. The old people are the most susceptible age rate to contract chronic diseases. In most cases they need to take a lot of medicines daily. Therefore it is really hard to handle with different medicine schedules, especially, when the elderly has been living alone. Therewith, we propose a pervasive health environment for medical treatment at home wherein the family and/or close friends are characterized as remotely caregivers.

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  1. Technische Universität Dortmund, August-Schmidt-Straße 4, 44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Gustavo Souto

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  1. Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

    Jit Biswas

  2. Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Hisato Kobayashi

  3. National University, Singapore

    Lawrence Wong

  4. University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

    Bessam Abdulrazak

  5. Institut Telecom, Paris, France

    Mounir Mokhtari

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Souto, G. (2013). Guardian: A Pervasive Environment to Monitor Elderly People in Medical Treatment at Home. In: Biswas, J., Kobayashi, H., Wong, L., Abdulrazak, B., Mokhtari, M. (eds) Inclusive Society: Health and Wellbeing in the Community, and Care at Home. ICOST 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7910. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39470-6_37

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