A health monitoring and evaluation system for assessing care needs of residents in aged-care facilities

Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, BioMED 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 414-418

  Chan, Leroy L ^a   Zhang, James ^a   Narayanan, Michael ^a   Celler, Branko G ^a   Lovell, Nigel H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged care; Functional assessment; Sensor network; Telehealth; Ubiquitous network; Zigbee

Indexed keywords

AGED CARES; AGED-CARE; CENTRAL SERVERS; DECISION SUPPORTS; EVALUATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH ASSESSMENTS; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH-MONITORING; HYBRID WIRELESS NETWORKS; MOBILE SENSORS; MONITORING APPROACHES; PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; TELEHEALTH; UBIQUITOUS NETWORK; UNOBTRUSIVE MONITORING; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; ZIGBEE;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MONITORING; SENSOR NETWORKS; STRUCTURES (BUILT OBJECTS); WIRELESS NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 62949115250     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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