Title
A study of long term tendencies in residents' activities of daily living at a group home for people with dementia using rfid slippers
Abstract
A growing number of the elderly with dementia are accommodated to group homes and live with caregivers in Japan. We are concerned with Activities of Daily Living(ADL) of these residents and installed into a group home a sensor network as a pilot study to record and analyze their whereabouts. Twenty one antennas were placed under mats and five residents wore slippers into which Radio Frequency IDentification( RFID) tags were inserted. We collected location data for thirty months and looked for long term tendencies in their activities. We found that the information concerning their whereabouts may indicate their waning health conditions and may reflect caregivers' treatment. We also found a seasonal effect on residents' mobilities, a decline in summer. The result shows that location data may be exploited as a valuable source to recognize residents' slowly changing conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-21535-3_46
ICOST
Keywords
Field
DocType
rfid slipper,pilot study,long term tendency,group home,health condition,radio frequency identification,thirty month,location data,sensor network,valuable source,daily living,seasonal effect
Gerontology,Activities of daily living,Computer security,Computer science,Group home,Location data,Wireless sensor network,Radio-frequency identification,Mobilities,Dementia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6719
0302-9743
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.76
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tsutomu Fujinami1397.20
Motoki Miura28721.85
Ryozo Takatsuka3334.10
Taro Sugihara4449.53