Proactive medication assistances based on spatiotemporal context awareness of aged persons

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2008:2008:5121-4. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650366.

Abstract

In this paper, we developed a system that could assist appropriate activities for medication adherence of the elderly. It employs a proactive knowledge which is represented as templates predefined for their medication activities. The knowledge-based assistance depends on the contexts considerably, which the system can recognize by continuously monitoring the current position and the time-schedule for their medications. The monitoring is performed with ultrasonic sensors and infrared sensors mounted in a display and a pillbox mainly. According to the recognized contexts, the medication activities can he serviced through old person-friendly multimedia display. In special, since the knowledge is well-defined by XML, only its content modification can provide a variety of services individually customized to the elderly.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Drug Administration Schedule*
  • Drug Therapy, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Health Services for the Aged*
  • Humans
  • Korea
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / methods*
  • Patient Compliance*
  • Reminder Systems*
  • User-Computer Interface*