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Recently, many healthcare or health monitoring systems are proposed to improve life quality of the elderly in the aging process. The elderly are generally with poor health and low information literacy. Low information literacy might be an obstacle of using such systems. This research considered the characteristics and the needs of the elderly and developed an intelligent health monitoring system for the elderly with low information literacy living in the nursing home. The system is intelligent since it can monitor the health status of the elderly based on clinical and medical knowledge, provide an easy-to-understand and easy-to-use user interface for the elderly, and automatically send important or emergency feedback to caregivers. Finally, we explored the user acceptance for the elderly using our proposed system based on the unified theory of acceptance and user of technology model. The experimental results indicate the developed system is highly accepted by the elderly in terms of performance expectation, endeavor expectation, social influence, and facilitating condition.
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We would like to thank anonymous referees for their valuable suggestions. We thank Healthy Aging Research Center (HARC) of Chang Gung University for excellent technical assistance. This work was supported in part by the Chang Gung University Grant UARPD3B0061, in part by the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Grant CMRPD390033, and in part by the National Science Council of Republic of China under the contract numbers NSC 100-2628-H-182-001-MY3.
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Tseng, K.C., Hsu, CL. & Chuang, YH. Designing an Intelligent Health Monitoring System and Exploring User Acceptance for the Elderly. J Med Syst 37, 9967 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-013-9967-y
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