A web-based home welfare and care services support system

Author

Ogawa, Hidekuni ; Yonezawa, Yoshiharu ; Maki, Hiromichi ; Sato, Haruhiko ; Caldwel, W. Morton

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Abstract

Summary form only given. In Japan, Home Helpers provide home welfare and care services for the elderly, such as cooking, bathing, washing, cleaning, shopping, etc. We developed a web-based home service support system using wireless Internet mobile phones and Internet client computers with liquid crystal tablets. The liquid crystal tablet is used as an entry device for elderly persons´ care requests. The client computer sends the requests to the server computer in the Home Helper central office, and then the server computer automatically transfers them to the Home Helper´s mobile phone. The developed home welfare and care services support system is easily operated by elderly persons and enables Home Helpers to save a significant amount of time and extra travel.

Keywords

Internet; geriatrics; mobile handsets; patient care; telemedicine; Home Helpers; Internet client computers; Japan; bathing; cleaning; cooking; elderly; extra travel; liquid crystal tablets; server computer; shopping; time saving; washing; web-based home welfare-care services support system; wireless Internet mobile phones; Central office; Cleaning; Home computing; Liquid crystal devices; Liquid crystals; Mobile handsets; Senior citizens; Web and internet services; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053080

Filename

1053080