Abstract:

Nowadays, life expectancy is increasing continuously mainly based on pervasive and medical technologies advances. Most of the older adults claim to remain independent and to live in their own homes as they age. Aging-in-place enhances their wellbeing and quality of life, while reducing the financial burden of residential care costs. However, due to chronic disease, multi-morbidities and age-related changes, appropriate conditions are required to make aging-in-place possible. Seniors’ remote health and daily life activities monitoring using advanced Information Technology and Communication (ITC) could enable the convergence of independent living with health, wellness, and medical care. The presence of neurodegenerative decline is an important fact in older people’ lives that has to be monitored in order to control its evolution and act accordingly for diminishing its impact on their health. Remote patients monitoring by using Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and devices can solve this problem by delivering a big amount of data that can be used for providing predictive and intelligent healthcare services. “Non-invasive monitoring system and health assessment of the elderly in a smart environment” - RO-SmartAgeing system is designed for the purpose of enabling the health and home environment monitoring of an older patient in order to maintain a good quality of life. Several provided functionalities address the specificities of a proper neurodegenerative disorder management. In this context, a series of interconnected devices are used for to trace the health status and the environment’s parameters of the patient as well as the transmission of the collected signals and values to the Cloud in order to be processed and visualized by the medical specialists. Testing and validation of an IoT-based healthcare monitoring system for assisting neurodegenerative patients have a high importance in order to sustain reliable patient-centric outputs and functionalities.