A ubiquitous smart home for elderly

One major challenge to successful aging is the capability to preserve health, or from another perspective to avoid disease. Unfortunately, a large percentage of the elderly people are living with chronic diseases or disabilities. Home care technologies and other emerging technologies have the potential to play a major role in home-based health care approach. The main goal of the presented research in this paper is to develop a cost-effective user-friendly telemedicine system to serve the elderly and disabled people in the community, and to establish a continuous communication link between patients and caregivers and allow physicians to offer help when needed. Hence, we are presenting here an integrated user-friendly model of a smart home which provides telemedicine for elderly at home. The paper focuses on implementation details and practical considerations of integrating the diverse technologies into a working system.