Research Article
A Context-Aware Healthcare Architecture for the Elderly
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-29236-6_3, author={Tolulope Oyekanmi and Nhat Nguyen and Vangalur Alagar}, title={A Context-Aware Healthcare Architecture for the Elderly}, proceedings={Context-Aware Systems and Applications. 4th International Conference, ICCASA 2015, Vung Tau, Vietnam, November 26-27, 2015, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={ICCASA}, year={2016}, month={4}, keywords={Health care Elderly population profiles Context awareness Healthcare model Healthcare determinants}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-29236-6_3} }- Tolulope Oyekanmi
Nhat Nguyen
Vangalur Alagar
Year: 2016
A Context-Aware Healthcare Architecture for the Elderly
ICCASA
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29236-6_3
Abstract
In order to provide dependable healthcare services for the elderly, it is necessary to have a patient-centric system in which service automation dominates through the use of context-awareness. Healthcare service automation has the virtues to overcome the disadvantages arising from the disabilities that are inherent in the elderly population, physically challenged, and those who live in remote areas. In order that patients trust the healthcare services provided by the system, the creation of healthcare services must be founded on accurate model of patients, and must be delivered by experts through dependable medical devices and secure channels. Motivated by this goal, we propose a healthcare architecture based on a generic Context Awareness Framework (CAF) adapted to the elderly. The automation aspects of healthcare services based on this architecture are discussed.