A Web-based home welfare and care services support system using a pen type image sensor.
A long-term care insurance law for elderly persons was put in force two years ago in Japan. The Home Helpers, who are employed by hospitals, care companies or the welfare office, provide home welfare and care services for the elderly, such as cooking, bathing, washing, cleaning, shopping, etc. We developed a web-based home welfare and care services support system using wireless Internet mobile phones and Internet client computers, which employs a pen type image sensor. The pen type image sensor is used by the elderly people as the entry device for their 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. This newly-developed home welfare and care services support system is easily operated by elderly persons and enables Homes Helpers to save a significant amount of time and extra travel.
Ogawa
Hidekuni
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Department of Electronics, Hiroshima Institute of Technology, Hiroshima 731-5193, Japan.
Yonezawa
Yoshiharu
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Maki
Hiromichi
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Sato
Haruhiko
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Hahn
Allen W
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Caldwell
W Morton
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D040421:Cell Phone / Q000295:instrumentation; D016287:Computer Peripherals; D004867:Equipment Design; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D018575:Home Care Services, Hospital-Based; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D012648:Self Care / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014159:Transducers; D014584:User-Computer Interface