eHealthPortal : a social support hub for the active living of the elderly

The absolute and relative increases in the number of elderly are evident worldwide, from the most developed countries to the lowest-income regions. The fast demographic transition poses great challenges to the healthcare system and introduces a significant burden to the elderly and their family. To...

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Main Authors: Wang, Di, Tan, Ah-Hwee
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-896512019-12-06T17:30:21Z eHealthPortal : a social support hub for the active living of the elderly Wang, Di Tan, Ah-Hwee School of Computer Science and Engineering Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering - ICCSE'17 Elderly Active Living Engineering::Computer science and engineering The absolute and relative increases in the number of elderly are evident worldwide, from the most developed countries to the lowest-income regions. The fast demographic transition poses great challenges to the healthcare system and introduces a significant burden to the elderly and their family. To meet the unprecedented challenges of global aging, various aging-inplace (AIP) solutions have been proposed to enable the elderly to live in their own home and community safely, independently and comfortably. Elderly need support in various aspects, such as physical, cognitive, emotional, and social, in their daily life. However, most existing AIP solutions provide support in one or two aspects only and many focus on anomaly detection rather than deliver care or companionship. To better facilitate eldercare at home, we propose HealthPortal, which is a social support hub for the active living of the elderly. By crowdsourcing help and support from the users’ family and friends, caregivers, and doctors, eHealthPortal cares for the wellness of the elderly in all the four aforementioned key aspects. As a novel feature of the system, eHealthPortal is supported by a group of virtual and robotic agents for providing reliable sensing in unobtrusive ways seamlessly, tender caring in a holistic manner proactively, and actual companionship in natural forms constantly. NRF (Natl Research Foundation, S’pore) Accepted version 2019-08-23T06:04:25Z 2019-12-06T17:30:21Z 2019-08-23T06:04:25Z 2019-12-06T17:30:21Z 2017-07-01 2017 Conference Paper © 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). All rights reserved. This paper was published in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Crowd Science and Engineering - ICCSE'17 and is made available with permission of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89651 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49765 208263 en © 2017 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3126973.3126989 7 p. application/pdf
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topic Elderly
Active Living
Engineering::Computer science and engineering
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Active Living
Engineering::Computer science and engineering
Wang, Di
Tan, Ah-Hwee
eHealthPortal : a social support hub for the active living of the elderly
description The absolute and relative increases in the number of elderly are evident worldwide, from the most developed countries to the lowest-income regions. The fast demographic transition poses great challenges to the healthcare system and introduces a significant burden to the elderly and their family. To meet the unprecedented challenges of global aging, various aging-inplace (AIP) solutions have been proposed to enable the elderly to live in their own home and community safely, independently and comfortably. Elderly need support in various aspects, such as physical, cognitive, emotional, and social, in their daily life. However, most existing AIP solutions provide support in one or two aspects only and many focus on anomaly detection rather than deliver care or companionship. To better facilitate eldercare at home, we propose HealthPortal, which is a social support hub for the active living of the elderly. By crowdsourcing help and support from the users’ family and friends, caregivers, and doctors, eHealthPortal cares for the wellness of the elderly in all the four aforementioned key aspects. As a novel feature of the system, eHealthPortal is supported by a group of virtual and robotic agents for providing reliable sensing in unobtrusive ways seamlessly, tender caring in a holistic manner proactively, and actual companionship in natural forms constantly.
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