CareMap: Human-Space-Service Based Healthcare Modeling and Quantifying for the Elderly Aging in Place

With the aging of the population, caregiving for the elderly has become an urgent social topic. While the rapid development of data-driven technologies provides tremendous promises to deal with this issue, the gap between data-driven and practical healthcare challenges their effectiveness. With the aim of providing strong data basis for the large-scale data-driven healthcare, this paper proposes a human-space-service based method, named CareMap, to model and quantity the caregiving process for the elderly aging at home. We build the intelligent individual profile to model and compute seniors’ health conditions on the one hand and care network profile to model and quantify the care resources around the elderly on the other hand. We design a CareMap based prototype to illustrate the possible application and discuss its potentials and limitations.