• DocumentCode
    2057435
  • Title

    An intelligent interactive healthcare services environment for assisted living at home

  • Author

    Vergados, Dimitrios ; Kavvadias, Christoforos ; Bigalke, Olaf ; Eppler, Arnold ; Jerabek, Boro ; Alevizos, Alevizos ; Caragiozidis, Michael ; Biniaris, Cheistos ; Robert, Eric

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Information and Communication System Engineering, University of Aegean
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    Jan. 30 2008-Feb. 1 2008
  • Firstpage
    329
  • Lastpage
    329
  • Abstract
    Since the population of elderly people grows absolutely and in relation to the overall population in the world, the improvement of the quality of life of elderly people at home is of a great importance. This can be achieved through the development of generic technologies for managing their domestic ambient environment consisting of white goods, entertainment equipment and home automation systems in order to increase their autonomy and safety. In this context, the provision intelligent interactive healthcare services will improve their daily life and allowing at the same time the continuous monitoring of their health and their effective treatment.
  • Keywords
    Decision support systems; Medical services; Healthcare Services, Patient Monitoring, Assited Living at Home;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 2008. PervasiveHealth 2008. Second International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tampere
  • Print_ISBN
    978-963-9799-15-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.4056
  • Filename
    5446172