【講演概要】 Many countries nowadays are facing a serious social problem of aging population structure. The medical care problems that accompany the aged population will aggravate the burden of national health insurance. Recently, self health care at home becomes one of the blooming research topics. Most health care budget is allocated to medical cure to heal the sick in current health insurance system. Due to the continuing increase in medical care expense, it is time to also consider the importance of daily health maintenance, accident prevention as well as mental care so that senior citizens can have a chance to better enjoy the beauty of a longer life span. Conventional health care systems assumed that elderly people have no physical and social activities. Even worse, they are designed for sick elderly. It is worthy to emphasize the issues such as how to assist the elderly to live in a healthy state while being comfortable and happy. This talk will address intelligent systems for elderly self health care on smart phones. Some effective methods and modules are proposed to resolve the critical issues involving falling detection, loneliness prevention, and the retard of obliviousness.
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