Development of Health Care System Based on Wearable Devices

With the rapid growth of the aging world population, elderly health care has become a prior issue in all countries. In order to decrease the manpower burden, cost and improve the care service quality, many long-term care institutions start to seek assistance from technology to develop some health care software trying to solve the problem. The health care system in this study is designed to contain wearable devices and care notification system. Wearable devices include smart clothes, healthy watch, and bodytag to record the users' physiological parameters. The raw data was collected by the wearable devices and updated to the database to turn into the personal health analysis report. Care notification system which can record users' measurement value and proactive inform the users if their thresholds are abnormal. Currently, the system has been set in a long-term care institution in Taiwan since October, 1st, 2018. There are two groups of residents in the institution. One of the groups are the elders who have chronic such as high pressure and high blood sugar. This type of group adopts the care notification system to help them manage their health. The other group is dementia residents. There are 10 dementias about 59 to 89 years old attend the experiment. The data collection of the experiment during 93 days and the result shows that the average steps of 10 subject are 3925 steps per day and the sleep efficiency is 84.425 points. The frequency of abnormal event about stays too long for more than 2 hours is 9.82 times per day. By using the system, the caregivers can monitor the physiological signals and abnormal events in a long time and provide more efficient care services.