Identification technologies to support Alzheimer contexts

Alzheimer's disease makes great demands on care by assistants, due to the fact that they cannot distract their attention from patients while they are at the same time managing records. For that reason, technologies to complement this process need to be adapted. In this work we present a proposal to...

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Main Author: Villarreal, Vladimir (author)
Other Authors: Bravo, José (author), Hervás, Ramón (author), Gallego, R (author), Casero, Gregorio (author), Vergara, Marcos (author), Carmona, T (author), Fuentes, Carmen (author), Gachet, Diego (author), Nava, S (author), Chavira, Gabriel (author)
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Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1389650
http://ridda2.utp.ac.pa/handle/123456789/4747
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Summary:Alzheimer's disease makes great demands on care by assistants, due to the fact that they cannot distract their attention from patients while they are at the same time managing records. For that reason, technologies to complement this process need to be adapted. In this work we present a proposal to adapt identification technologies: Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) and Near Field Communications (NFC), focusing especially on the last one. We fuse both technologies and apply them to an Alzheimer's day center. Patients are tagged with two kinds of labels: 13.56Mhz.Mifare for NFC and UHF for RFID. With the first one we tag the context, which means patients, devices (displays, exercise books, etc) and places. With a simple interaction, which involves touching tags with mobile phones, it is possible to manage the information easily. Moreover, with RFID, we localize each patient by the simple act of their passing by an antenna placed in the doors.