Health Smart Home - Towards an assistant tool for automatic assessment of the dependence of elders

Author

Xuan Hoa Binh Le ; Di Mascolo, M. ; Gouin, A. ; Noury, N.

Author_Institution

INP Grenoble, St. Martin d´Heres

fYear

2007

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

3806

Lastpage

3809

Abstract

In order to help elders living alone to age in place independently and safely, it can be useful to have an assistant tool that can automatically assess their dependence and issue an alert if there is any loss of autonomy. The dependence can be assessed by the degree of performance, by the elders, of activities of daily living. This article presents an approach enabling the activity recognition for an elder living alone in a Health Smart Home equipped with noninvasive sensors.

Keywords

biomedical telemetry; geriatrics; home automation; intelligent sensors; medical computing; patient monitoring; assistant tool; automatic assessment; autonomy loss; daily living activity recognition; elder people; health smart home; medical telemonitoring; noninvasive sensors; Aging; Diseases; Hospitals; Infrared sensors; Intelligent actuators; Intelligent sensors; Magnetic sensors; Monitoring; Performance loss; Smart homes; Activities of Daily Living; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Female; Health Services for the Aged; Homes for the Aged; Humans; Male; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Personal Autonomy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0787-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353161

Filename

4353161