Title
Promotion of Adequate Exercise for Chronic Disorders' Elderly Through Paced Music.
Abstract
South Korean population has been aging at an accelerated rate in recent years and the country will be a hyper-aging nation at 2020. One important issue in an aged society is higher rates of chronic disorders among the population. One of the best means to prevent an increase in severity of chronic disease is making patients exercise regularly. In this paper, we present a mobile app for senior citizens that provides daily exercise recommendations an receive tailored service related to a chronic disorder. In this app, pace (BPM) of played music is regulated to encourage patients to fulfill their daily exercise goal. The combination was constrcuted by using suggestions of World Health Organization and Korea Sports Promotion Foundation. Through our app, users are guided to exercise daily and regularly with appropriate exercise intensity. Patients can deal with their chronic disorders via our mobile application with increased physical activities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3233/978-1-61499-830-3-136
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Elderly,Chronic disease,Physical Activity,Mobile Health
Chronic disorders,Physical therapy,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
245
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gi-Ryong Kang100.34
Il Kon Kim201.35
Woo Jin Kim300.34
Do-Youn Lee401.01