Smart Assistance of Elderly Individuals in Emergency Situations at Home

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Smart Assistance of Elderly Individuals in Emergency Situations at Home

Author : Dr Rizwan Patan

Year : 2021

Publisher : Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

Source Title : Internet of Things

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Abstract

Health monitoring products can improve essential services for elderly patients, with personalized customer service and prescription prompts being two practical areas of assistance. The use of IoT in assistive devices can help to reduce the severity of diseases such as influenza. This therapeutic assistance can also provide precautionary information for infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, influenza, and HIV. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) can provide computer-generated assistance through IoT devices. For example, the possibility of survival from a sudden infarction is considerably better if an individual obtains assistance in a short period of time. For older individuals, IoT devices can monitor for signs of mental and physical deterioration, with gesture evaluation, interaction, recognition, and alerting methods. This chapter examines emergency assistance in cases of stroke, for which the appropriate therapeutic support can improve the outcome of patients.