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Health and wellness monitoring through wearable and ambient sensors: exemplars from home-based care of elderly with mild dementia

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Monitoring and timely intervention are extremely important in the continuous management of health and wellness among all segments of the population, but particularly among those with mild dementia. In relation to this, we prescribe three design principles for the construction of services and applications. These are ambient intelligence, service continuity, and micro-context. In this paper, we provide three exemplars from our research and development activities that illustrate the use of these design principles in the construction of services and applications. All the applications are drawn from the field of care for mild dementia patients in their living quarters.

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  1. Institute for Infocomm Research, I2R, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

    Jit Biswas, Andrei Tolstikov, Maniyeri Jayachandran, Victor Foo, Aung Aung Phyo Wai, Clifton Phua, Weimin Huang, Louis Shue & Kavitha Gopalakrishnan

  2. Alexandra Hospital, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

    Jer-En Lee & Philip Yap

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Biswas, J., Tolstikov, A., Jayachandran, M. et al. Health and wellness monitoring through wearable and ambient sensors: exemplars from home-based care of elderly with mild dementia. Ann. Telecommun. 65, 505–521 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-010-0176-0

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