A Method to Evaluate Quality of Life of Elderly People Based on Intelligent Wearable Devices

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10.2991/amahs-16.2016.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Elderly people, monitoring, intelligent wearable device, QOL

Abstract

Aging is a common feature of population structure both at home and abroad. Improving the intelligent level of aging service is meaningful for the development of aging service in the following aspects: 1)enhance the utilization of aging service resources; 2)ensure proper care to be given to elderly people who are in need; 3)enable elderly people to have proper opportunities to maintain their body vitality, to improve their total health and quality of life. Intelligent wearable devices can be used to collect data about the activities, sleeping and basic physiologic function of elderly people in real time, which are analyzed on the cloud platform and a proper description about the real-time life condition of the elders is made swiftly. This evaluation method of life quality based on intelligent wearable devices may take place of the traditional life quality evaluation and become to be one of the standards in monitoring life condition of the elderly, making welfare policies and evaluating the efficiency of aging service.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Gang Yang
AU  - Huilin Mo
AU  - Feifei Yang
AU  - Dongyue Li
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - A Method to Evaluate Quality of Life of Elderly People Based on Intelligent Wearable Devices
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Advances in Management, Arts and Humanities Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 195
EP  - 201
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/amahs-16.2016.40
DO  - 10.2991/amahs-16.2016.40
ID  - Yang2016/12
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