Abstract
Nowadays, the elderly population has increased considerably as well as health problems related to old age, such as dementia. Consequently, there is a need for constant monitoring, assistance and support provided by caregivers in people’s home causing high economic costs and a shortage of healthcare professionals. Informal caregivers, usually relatives, provide many caregiving services although they might suffer of stress and burden for being aware 24/7. This has motivated the development of systems based in new technologies such as Internet of Things, Cloud Services and Machine learning. In this work, we propose a system architecture based on these new technologies along with a dashboard prototype for monitoring older adults with dementia through a video, sound and map visualization. Hence, we obtained GPS, audio and video data for future behavior analysis in order to provide as well, notification services to caregivers to inform them about the status of people with dementia.
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This work was partially supported by project 20210010 from the Secretaría de Investigación y Posgrado of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico.
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Beltrán, J. et al. (2022). Smart Technologies for Monitoring Older Adults with Dementia. In: Nesmachnow, S., Hernández Callejo, L. (eds) Smart Cities. ICSC-Cities 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1555. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96753-6_9
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