Potential role of wearable, ambulatory and home monitoring systems for patients with neurodegenerative diseases and their caregivers

Author

Meriggi, Paolo ; Castiglioni, Paolo ; Rizzo, Francesco ; Gower, Valerio ; Andrich, Renzo ; Rabuffetti, Marco ; Ferrarin, Maurizio ; Rienzo, Marco Di

Author_Institution

Polo Tecnol. (Biomed. Technol. Dept.), Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi Onlus, Milan, Italy

fYear

2011

Firstpage

316

Lastpage

319

Abstract

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDD) require a constant care and attention in pharmacological therapy and rehabilitation, exercises administration, functional assessments and management of daily life. In this paper, we discuss a possible role of pervasive solutions with respect to NDD, on the basis of the overall progress of ICT and on the experience achieved in our department in three fields: Assistive Technology, NDD quantitative assessment, and design and development of wearable devices.

Keywords

diseases; medical computing; patient monitoring; ubiquitous computing; wearable computers; ICT; NDD quantitative assessment; ambulatory systems; assistive technology; caregivers; daily life management; exercises administration; functional assessments; home monitoring systems; neurodegenerative diseases; pervasive solutions; pharmacological rehabilitation; pharmacological therapy; wearable devices; wearable systems; Biomedical monitoring; Computer architecture; Monitoring; Multiple sclerosis; Smart phones; Usability; NDD; ambulatory monitoring; multimodal interfaces; neurodegenerative diseases; pervasive computing; wearable systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth), 2011 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dublin

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-767-2

Type

conf

Filename

6038822