Abstract
Due to its proven capability in customizing information according to the patients' needs, multimedia has been regarded as a promising technology for home healthcare. In this paper, we present our study on improving medication adherence of the elderly with the support of ubiquitous multimedia services. A multimedia healthcare system (MHS) is built based on a comprehensive understanding of the requirements of the elderly care. It provides the continuous medication monitoring, context-aware prompting, adaptive multimedia presentation, and flexible medicine management. The experimental results show that the MHS can improve the medication adherence of the elderly effectively.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 6026896 |
| Pages (from-to) | 506-517 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | IEEE Systems Journal |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2011 |
Keywords
- Elderly care
- medication adherence
- multimedia system
- ubiquitous computing