Proposal and implementation of a system to remotely watch the health conditions of elderly persons

Abstract

In Japan, senior citizen population is rapidly increasing as a result of the progress in super-aging society, while many younger generation people live separately from their elderly relatives under the current societal environment. Nevertheless, young people often have a desire for constantly watching health conditions of their elderly relatives even remotely. In this paper, we propose a system to constantly trace the moves of elderly people and accumulate the information obtained through Smart-Phone in the management server so that watchers (families and/or relatives) are able to cope with the situation urgently, should any abnormal conditions be detected. We have implemented part of our proposed system and confirmed the effectiveness of the system.