TY - GEN
T1 - A Study of long term tendencies in residents' activities of daily living at a group home for people with dementia using RFID slippers
AU - Fujinami, Tsutomu
AU - Miura, Motoki
AU - Takatsuka, Ryozo
AU - Sugihara, Taro
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments. Our research is partly supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (22615017) from JSPS, the Service Science, Solutions and Foundation Integrated Research Program (S3FIRE) from JST, and Cluster for Promotion of Science and Technology in Regional Areas from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. We would like to thank the caregivers, managers, residents, and their families for their cooperation.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-21535-3_46
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-21535-3_46
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79959581241
SN - 9783642215346
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 303
EP - 307
BT - Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities - 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2011, Proceedings
T2 - 9th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics: Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities, ICOST 2011
Y2 - 20 June 2011 through 22 June 2011
ER -