Enabling NFC Technology for Supporting Chronic Diseases: A Proposal for Alzheimer Caregivers

  • Authors:
  • Jose Bravo;Diego López-De-Ipiña;Carmen Fuentes;Ramón Hervás;Rocío Peña;Marcos Vergara;Gregorio Casero

  • Affiliations:
  • MAmI Research Lab, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain;Facultad de Ingeniería (ESIDE), Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, Spain;MAmI Research Lab, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain and General Hospital of Ciudad Real, Spain;MAmI Research Lab, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain;MAmI Research Lab, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain;MAmI Research Lab, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain;MAmI Research Lab, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain

  • Venue:
  • AmI '08 Proceedings of the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Alzheimer's disease makes great demands on care by caregivers, since they cannot distract their attention from patients while they are managing records at the same time. For this reason, technologies to complement this process need to be considered. In this work we propose to adapt Near Field Communications (NFC), applying it to an Alzheimer's day centre. With a simple interaction, which involves touching tags with mobile phones, it is possible to manage the information easily. In addition, a complement for Alzheimer care visualization activities at home and monitoring is presented.