ABSTRACT
In Japan, Home Helpers are employed by hospitals, care companies or the welfare office, and are sent to homes of elderly persons to provide home welfare and care services. The care items for one month are scheduled by the care manager; however, the care items are often changed by request from the client, and the Home Helpers need to know these changes as soon as possible. The web-based care-requiring client and Home Helper support system is employing for improvement of the problem. In this study, we have evaluated the data entry time, the operation of choosing the items, the legibility of buttons displayed on the LCD, and the comprehensibility of displayed care item buttons. The evaluation found the data entry to be an easy operation.
ABSTRACT
R-R interval, respiration rhythm, posture and behavior recording system has been developed for monitoring a patient's cardiovascular regulatory system in daily life. The recording system consists of three ECG chest electrodes, a variable gain instrumentation amplifier, a dual axis accelerometer, a low power 8-bit single-chip microcomputer and a 1024 KB EEPROM. The complete system is mounted on the chest electrodes. R-R interval and respiration rhythm are calculated by the R waves detected from the ECG. Posture and behavior such as walking and running are detected from the body movements recorded by the accelerometer. The detected data are stored by the EEPROM and, after recording, are downloaded to a desktop computer for analysis.
ABSTRACT
A new safety support system has been developed to detect and transmit notification of a wandering elderly person's location. The system employs a low transmitting power mobile phone (PHS) and a personal computer (PC). The PHS is carried with the elderly person as a pendant. The PHS location is identified within 100 m from the receiving antenna ID. Therefore, the system can detect whether the wandering elderly person is in or out of their home. When the wandering elderly person is away from home, the system automatically informs the caregiver via voice mode and sends the wandering elderly person's location map by e-mail.
