tailieunhanh - Personalized Mobile Health Monitoring for Elderly

Theoretical development in the area of health change in an older population began with the realization that the rapid mortality decline among the old beginning in the late 1960s could be linked to important population health consequences (15, 75). Fries (36) generated some of the interest in trends in health with his promotion of the idea that there was an ongoing “compression of morbidity.” His assertion rested on assumptions that mortality at the older ages would reach a limit beyond which there could be no further decline and that there was an ongoing increase in the age of disability onset. Under these conditions, there would be a. | Personalized Mobile Health Monitoring for Elderly Andreas Lorenz Dorit Mielke Reinhard Oppermann Lars Zahl 49 2241 14 2971 49 2241 14 2204 49 2241 14 2703 49 2241 14 2154 Fraunhofer FIT Schloss Birlinghoven D-53754 St. Augustin @ ABSTRACT The key for successfully deploy mobile applications is the ability to understand the specific needs of its customers. In the field of mobile health monitoring the currently most important user group is the group of persons of the age 50 . In our project senSAVE we developed a user interface for monitoring personal vital parameters that is specifically adapted to the needs of this group. The paper illustrates our work to ensure usability of the application and the outcome of the project. Keywords Mobile health monitoring Elderly assistance Gerontechnology Wrist phone Disabilities. 1. INTRODUCTION Hypertension is an often underestimated risk of fatal long-term consequences. In fact cardiovascular diseases are one of the most important causes of death. In conjunction with overweight and diabetes it causes the majority of cardiac infarctions and strokes. A successful disease medication therapy often requires the support by lifestyle changes like changing food patterns and doing more physical activity. Establishing awareness for the course of vital parameters will positively influence and motivate people to pay attention to their vicious habits themselves. The exact diagnosis of hypertension is often complicated by two facts blood pressure is even for healthy persons dynamic and rapidly varying and the long-term monitoring tends to result in lower quality of life. In the first case it results from multiple influences like mental and physical situation psychological strain daytime alertness stress or food patterns. In the second case the fragmentary uncomfortable chancy acquisition of vital parameters is incompatible with the normal way of live of in other respect