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Modern Technologies and Devices for Remote Health Monitoring in Elderly Healthcare

Increased life expectancy along with the decreasing birthrate globally will result in a large aging population in the near future. Older age is often accompanied by numerous chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and lung diseases, stroke, diabetes and cancer, causing high mortality and strong impact on quality of life such as long-term diabetes- related complications. This unfavorable trend creates a significant socio-economic burden and increases costs associated with health care services. Therefore, enabling affordable new strategies and technologies for providing better health care is urgently needed. Emergency situations in elderly require immediate medical interventions and can result in prolonged hospital stay, all of which could be avoided or prevented by the continuous monitoring of the physiological parameters and activities. Remote health monitoring options: Remote health monitoring offers real-time monitoring, collecting and analyzing of physiological data collected by un-obtrusive sensors in a way that doesn’t interrupt daily activities of normal life. Smart home platforms allow people to remain in their home environment where physiological condition and motions are monitored by non-invasive low-cost sensors which are in communication with remote healthcare facilities. Additionally, modern smartphones are equipped with a number of sensors that can be used to measure several health parameters, analyze them, display on the phone and transmit to a distant healthcare facility. Quantitative assessment of cognitive and physical health, daily activities, gait patterns, and vital signs can be useful for early detection of a potential health problem. Diabetes monitoring: Diabetes-related complications cause kidney failure, lower limb amputations, and blindness. Optimal care for patients with diabetes often lack key health information necessary for tighter diabetes control which would result in more effective therapeutic strategy. That is the reason for a recent boost in the development of glucose sensors with effective continuous sensing technology. Additionally, the broad spectrum of artificial intelligence approaches for prevention, detection and treatment of diabetes are currently being developed in order to improve glucose control and reduce hypoglycemic episodes. Conclusion. The primary purpose of remote health monitoring is to allow people to live uninterrupted and active lives with continuous surveillance of their physical well-being. The improvements in data storage and processing allow a low-cost solution for screening, early diagnosis and predictive algorithms development.

Elderly ; Remote health monitoring ; Diabetes monitoring

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