PPCare: A Personal and Pervasive Health Care System for the Elderly

Over the past decade, the ageing of population has increasingly become a serious social issue all over the world. Accordingly, the market demand for health care monitoring of the elderly has greatly emerged. However, existing health care systems yet cannot provide convenient and comprehensive health care services for the elderly. This paper presents a mobile phone based personal and pervasive health care system for the elderly to monitor their daily life and physiological indexes. The whole system consists of four major functions, including sport planning, calories consumption estimation, fall alert and physiological indexes monitoring. PPCare system has been deployed and applied to the elderly in two communities for trial use and some constructive feedbacks have been collected for further system improvement.