Advanced technological solutions for e-Health and dementia patient monitoring
By: Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain; Philip Moore, School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China; George Tadros, University of Warwick, UK
Series: Advances in medical, technological, and clinical practice book (AMTCP) book series; Premier refernce source
Publisher: Medical Information Science Reference
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Hershey, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781466674813; 9781466674820
Subjects: Dementia; Patients; Care; Wireless communication systems in medical care; Patient monitoring; Equipment and supplies; Telecommunication in medicine; Methods; Physiologic Monitoring; Instrumentation; Self-Help Devices; Telemedicine
Description: "This book provides comprehensive coverage of issues in patient health and support from the perspectives of doctors, nurses, patients, and caregivers with a focus on challenges and opportunities, as well as future research in the field"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-379) and index.
Table of contents: title: Behavioural and psychological symptoms in dementia / Nikhila Deshpande, Babu Naya; title: Carers of people with dementia and the use of assistive technologies / Sarmishtha Bhattacharyya, Susan Mary Benbow; title: Intelligently adaptive mobile interfaces for older people / Sheila Mc Carthy, Heather Sayers, Paul Mc Kevitt, Mike McTear, Kieran Coyle; title: Emerging technologies for dementia patient monitoring / Tarik Qassem; title: Employing opportunistic networks in dementia patient monitoring / Radu-Ioan Ciobanu, Ciprian Dobre; title: An autonomous intelligent system for the private outdoors monitoring of people with mild cognitive impairments / Antoni Martínez-Ballesté, Frederic Borràs, Agusti Solanas; title: Service evolution in clouds for dementia patient monitoring system usability enhancement / Zhe Wang, Chalmers Kevin, Xiaodong Liu, Guojian Cheng; title: NoSQL technologies for real time (patient) monitoring / Ciprian Dobre, Fatos Xhafa; title: Cloud based monitoring for patients with dementia / Philip Moore, Fatos Xhafa, Mak Sharma; title: Fostering independent living in the aging population through proactive paging / Mauro Migliardi, Cristiana Degano, Marco Tettamanti; title: Using smart phone as a track and fall detector : an intelligent support system for people with dementia / Chia-Yin Ko, Fang-Yie Leu, I-Tsen; title: Pervasive data capturing and analysis for patients with Alzheimer's disease / Kam-Yiu Lam [and 5 more]; title: An internet of things governance architecture with applications in healthcare / Adrian Copie, Bogdan Manae, Victor Ion Munteanu, Teodor-Florin Fortie.