Wireless health care service system for elderly with dementia

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 696-704

  Lin, Chung Chih ^a   Chiu, Ming Jang ^b   Hsiao, Chun Chieh ^c   Lee, Ren Guey ^d   Tsai, Yuh Show ^e  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^e CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dementia; Elder; Geographic information system (GIS); Global positioning system (GPS); Global system for mobile communications (GSM); Health care; Radio frequency identification (RFID); Ubiquitous network

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SERVERS;

DEMENTIA; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; UBIQUITOUS NETWORK;

HEALTH CARE;

AGED; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMENTIA; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; NURSING CARE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; NURSING CARE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMEDICINE; TELEMETRY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33750222014     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.874196     Document Type: Article

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