Development of a Smart Application for Protecting Dementia Patients
Hyun-Suk Hwang, Yun Seong Ko, Ga Un Ban
Sep 30, 2013
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Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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Key Takeaway Key Takeaway: This smart application for dementia patients displays their positions and pathways on maps, alerts guardians when patients are in danger, and allows for safe zone registration.
Abstract
The applications for considering their position and daily patterns of dementia patients have been developed in an early stage even if the older patients who have weaker or serious symptoms has increased in various forms. In this paper, we develop an android-based application which displays positions and pathways of patients on maps and provide messages in the cases of dangerous situations. Guardians need to register schedules including safe areas and personal information of their patients. This system registers behavior status categorized as normal or abnormal each position which is sent to a database. In particular, the deviation status is assigned in case the patients are not within the safe areas that their guardians registered on their schedule. The wandering status is assigned in case the patients are repeatedly passed by their pathways. This smart application contains the modules such as patient position sending, guardian and patient information, patient schedule and safe zone registration, position and behavior status registration, pathway display and message sending, and rescue request. This system sends the notification and alarm service providing normal and abnormal behavior with deviation and wandering status of patients respectively.