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Monitoring Health Parameters of Elders to Support Independent Living and Improve Their Quality of Life

Improving the well-being and quality of life of the elderly population is closely related to assisting them to effectively manage age-related conditions such as chronic illnesses and anxiety, and to maintain their independence and self-sufficiency as much as possible. This paper presents the design,...

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Autores principales: Adami, Ilia, Foukarakis, Michalis, Ntoa, Stavroula, Partarakis, Nikolaos, Stefanakis, Nikolaos, Koutras, George, Kutsuras, Themistoklis, Ioannidi, Danai, Zabulis, Xenophon, Stephanidis, Constantine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7828366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33450904
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21020517
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Sumario:Improving the well-being and quality of life of the elderly population is closely related to assisting them to effectively manage age-related conditions such as chronic illnesses and anxiety, and to maintain their independence and self-sufficiency as much as possible. This paper presents the design, architecture and implementation structure of an adaptive system for monitoring the health and well-being of the elderly. The system was designed following best practices of the Human-Centred Design approach involving representative end-users from the early stages.