## 4 Smart Home Connectivity for New Elders
### Physical Connectivity
#### 4.1.2 Healthcare Connectivity  
For older people, health is one of their top concerns. Nowadays, the elderly group has gradually increased their emphasis on disease management and their acceptance level of smart devices has steadily raised. The connectivity of health management for the elderly includes five aspects: health detection system, disease prevention system, telemedicine system, training rehabilitation system, and emergency response system. * **Health detection system:** On one hand, the health status of the elderly can be detected by building a system of household medical equipment combining physiological indicator detectors, such as electronic blood pressure monitor, blood glucose meter, weight scale, oximeter, thermometer, etc. On the other hand, we can insert monitoring sensors in different home furniture and use wearable devices such as smartwatches and pedometers to monitor and collect the health data of the elderly in time, so that the seniors can keep aware of their newest physical condition. At the same time, relevant data can be shared with their children, nursing assistant, private doctor, healthcare workstation, hospital, etc., and combined with the electronic medical records of the elderly for distracting diagnosis plan so that they can go to the hospital or make an appointment for a doctor's visit in time to receive diagnosis and treatment for any potential diseases. * **Disease prevention system:** The elderly's awareness of healthcare has been increasingly improved in the progress of time. They are curious about health knowledge and are willing to invest in healthcare to prevent diseases in advance. Regarding this, the disease prevention system can reasonably recommend health knowledge, health recipes, and nutritional products to the elderly based on their own characteristics as well as some intelligent health equipment such as home physiotherapy equipment, massage chairs, foot bathtub, etc. * **Telemedicine system:** On one hand, the pressure of the social medical system keeps increasing due to the rapid growth of the elderly population. On the other hand, more and more elderly people are surrounded by chronic diseases and there are a large number of them do not need to go to the hospital for treatment of their physical problems. Therefore, it is necessary to vigorously develop telemedicine and online medical care by using detective equipment and display terminal at home, combining with online platforms, to conduct online health consultations, remote registration, disease diagnosis, health assessment, chronic disease management, medication reminder, etc. * **Rehabilitation training system:** Mild or serious illnesses are inevitable for the elderly with the growth of age. When serious diseases come, the elderly need to accept specific treatment and training to rehabilitate, but if it is a mild illness or a chronic illness, daily rehabilitation training can be performed at home. So, this kind of demand should be supported in the smart home system. There could be some household smart equipment to help the elderly do basic rehabilitation training or exercise to maintain a healthy level at home, such as smart fitness equipment, including a smart treadmill, smart cycling, smart exercise blanket, hand exerciser, etc. ; smart treatment equipment, including cervical lumbar treatment instrument, traction chair, hearing aids, etc. ; smart rehabilitation equipment, like pain relief therapy device, functional bed, wheelchair, oxygen generator, ventilator, protective gear, sleep instrument, etc. * **Emergency response system:** With the increasing number of empty nests and living-alone elderly people, if some sudden illnesses or fall happens when they stay at home, due to untimely discovery and missing the best treatment time, tragedy could happen and lead the elders to disability or death.