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

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• mHealth
• eHealth
• quality of life
• elderly
• independent living
• sensors