In Australia, about 25% of people over the age of 65 are living by themselves. And with limited access to assisted living options this poses a scary scenario should a fall or emergency situation occur and no one is around to help.
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It is not intended to achieve the accuracy of BSN or WSN approaches, and it is assumed that false alarms may occur with the proposed method. Nevertheless, the cost of a false alarm is low (i.e., it might result in a phone call to check in the house) compared with the benefit of ...
Additionally, the low financial income of elderly people can be considered a reason for not having advanced warning devices such as a smoke and/or carbon monoxide (CO) alarms [121] and they may not be able to support home maintenance and improvement expenses which may reduce the risk of a ...
For early fall prevention, one of the main advantages of integrating AI technology is the ability to send timely alerts and emergency alarms. This is especially important for the elderly who live independently. Older people can feel safer when their families and loved ones are aware of their phy...
Challenges caused by the care of the ageing population in many countries are becoming increasingly severe. However, high expenditures on healthcare services and the cost of infrastructure construction will be an unbearable burden for both the government
For this reason, linkage function modules were mainly used to generate alarms on the medical side and the care side after a fall occurred and was intelligently recognized to create a platform for nursing and medical staff to remotely monitor crisis alerts and deal with emergencies. 5.1.2. ...