Development of Smart Elderly Care Mobile Application for Health Management System

Abstract

Elderly care management has great potential to be further developed and shaped with smart healthcare solutions. In general, elderly care is defined as a service that serves the needs and requirements of senior citizens. As age progresses, the physical strength, health condition and mental stability deteriorate, especially when people reached a certain age (also known as elderly). It also brings about more medical appointments, medication and health issues. For elderlies, it is not easy to have a systematic management on medical appointments, medications and their health status on their own. It would be difficult for them to update or explain in details on their health conditions to their children or authorized caregivers. In most cases, family members are taking turns and responsibility to take their parents for medical appointments and check-up. It is quite a challenging task to keep up with the health status, medication details and others if more than one person act as the caregivers. This project proposes a smart health management system called Smart Elderly Care App (SECA). The main objective of this project is to develop a mobile apps to facilitate the health management issues. In general, SECA has five main features which are medical appointment, medication, daily health data, health summary, and elderly profile. By having these features, users can shape elderly care with innovative healthcare solutions to help the elderly people and their caregivers in the health management.