An ambient assisted living system for dementia patients

Özgün YILMAZ

Makale detayları

An ambient assisted living system for dementia patients

Yazarlar:

Özgün YILMAZ

Yayıncı:

TUBITAK

Dergi:

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2019 Vol.27 Issue 3, pp.2361-2378

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2019

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734039

Sıklık:

İki Aylık

eISSN:

1303-6203

pISSN:

1300-0632

Özet:

 

Dementia is a major health and social care challenge of today and  the near future as a result of increased human lifespan. Currently,  there is no therapeutic solution for dementia, but a solution for  managing the wandering behavior of dementia patients can be provided  by an ambient assisted living system. In this paper, the design and implementation of iCarus, which is an  intelligent ambient assisted living system for dealing with wandering  behavior in early stages of dementia, is described. The aim of iCarus  is to provide independent living for elderly people and a cost-effective  way of monitoring them. iCarus is a zone-based system that forms a  safety net. When a wandering episode occurs, rule-based context reasoning  is employed to determine the actions that are to be executed.   These actions include warning the patient, navigating the patient to his home, sending notifications to the   caregiver(s), and initiating a real-time tracking session for the caregiver and the emergency service. Also,  caregivers are able to construct their own rules and extend the  functionality of the system according to their own needs. Constructing  new rules is done by an innovative user interface. As  a case study, iCarus is described and evaluated with a scenario. In order to evaluate the usability of iCarus, a questionnaire was administered after the users tried the system.   The results were then statistically analyzed and reported.

Makale detayları

An ambient assisted living system for dementia patients

Yazarlar: Özgün YILMAZ

Yayıncı: TUBITAK

Dergi: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2019 Vol.27 Issue 3, pp.2361-2378

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 5/2019

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2000734039

Sıklık: İki Aylık

eISSN: 1303-6203

pISSN: 1300-0632

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Özgün YILMAZ

Yayıncı:

TUBITAK

Dergi:

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2019 Vol.27 Issue 3, pp.2361-2378

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

5/2019

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2000734039

Sıklık:

İki Aylık

eISSN:

1303-6203

pISSN:

1300-0632