An intelligent system for assisting family caregivers of dementia people

Author

Moshnyaga, Vasily ; Osamu, Tanaka ; Ryu, Toshin ; Hayashida, Akira ; Sakamoto, Daiki ; Imai, Yuki ; Shibata, Takuma

Author_Institution

Dept. Electron. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Fukuoka Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

85

Lastpage

89

Abstract

Caregiving a person suffering from dementia or loss of brain cognitive ability due to aging is a big physical, mental and emotional burden to family members. In this paper we present a novel system for assisting caregivers at home. The system employs heterogeneous sensing and artificial intelligence technologies to automatically and unobtrusively monitor the patient; assess possible risks that the patient may face in current situation; and alert the caregiver on emergency by delivering video, audio and text to his mobile phone or PC. We discuss the system architecture and technologies applied for sensing, communication, assessment and user-interface, and present a prototype system implementation.

Keywords

artificial intelligence; brain; emergency services; medical computing; mobile computing; patient monitoring; software architecture; user interfaces; artificial intelligence; brain cognitive ability; dementia people; emergency; family caregivers; intelligent system; mobile phone; patient monitoring; system architecture; user interface; Cameras; Dementia; Monitoring; Prototypes; Real-time systems; Servers; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health (CICARE), 2014 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICARE.2014.7007838

Filename

7007838