An assisted-living home architecture with integrated healthcare services for elderly people.
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 medical sensors, entertainment equipment, home automation systems and white goods, increasing 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. This work is supported by the INHOME Project EU IST-045061-STP, http://www.ist-inhome.eu.
VMW Solutions, Romsey, UK.
Andy
A
Marsh
Christos
C
Biniaris
Dimitrios
D
Vergados
Arnold
A
Eppler
Christoforos
C
Kavvadias
Olaf
O
Bigalke
Eric
E
Robert
Boro
B
Jerabek
Alevizos
A
Alevizos
Michael
M
Caragiozidis
D000368:Aged; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003199:Computer Systems; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D005060:Europe; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D017216:Telemedicine; D013686:Telemetry