Paper Info
Title
Towards long-term mobility tracking in NTU hospital's elder care center
Abstract
Growth of the elder population gives rise to the increasing demand of long-term elder-care facilities. Most elders living in such facilities suffer from multiple chronic illnesses. Accompanying these illnesses are slow declines of the elders' physical and mental health. Continuous tracking of the elders' daily activities is required to detect the declines early. To facilitate long-term mobility tracking of the elders, we investigate, in this work, the potential of a WSN-based indoor location system as a support for the already-overloaded nursing staff. Through the deployment of a WSN-based Real-Time Indoor Location System (WSN-RTLS) in the university hospital's elder care center for 8 months, we find that: (1) each elder's daily mobility shows a reoccurring pattern. The pattern, however, differs from individual to individual. (2) The mobility level shows a significant variability, i.e., not all elders show reoccurring patterns in mobility levels. These suggest that mere quantity of how much the elders move around the facility will not be a suitable target for behavioral modeling. Exact location of the elders' presence, rather, is more relevant. Insitu WSN-RTLSs would be an enabler towards early detection of the elders' physical or mental decline.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766969
PerCom Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
health care,diseases,elder care,geriatrics,wireless sensor network,biomedical communication,mobility management (mobile radio),multiple chronic illnesses,elder care center,mobility analysis,wsn-based real-time indoor location system,wsn-rtls,indoor communication,patient care,time 8 month,nursing staff,wireless sensor networks,long-term mobility tracking,indoor localization,sensors,mental health,servers,behavior modeling,real time
Health care,Population,Enabling,Gerontology,Telecommunications,Activities of daily living,Software deployment,Computer science,Computer network,Elder care,Mental health,Geriatrics
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-61284-936-2
0
0.34
References 
Authors
8
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chun-Chieh Hsiao118820.04
Yi-Jing Sung200.34
Seng-Yong Lau312911.28
Cheryl Chia-Hui Chen4989.34
Fei-Hsiu Hsiao5786.65
Hao-Hua Chu6116898.54
Polly Huang737134.65