Development of i-AIDE - a Miniature Wearable Personal Monitor for the Elderly

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的个人i-AIDE监控系统是一项平台技术，将产生多种好处，首先是保护我们老龄化人口的健康，加强与护理人员和亲人的沟通，使老年人能够在更大程度上和更长的时间内享受独立生活。这将产生额外的好处，降低老年护理成本，提高生产力和融入社会，并减轻成年子女的压力，他们目前必须在辅助生活中心的费用和不确定的安全舒适地独自生活在家里之间做出决定。i-AIDE[智能助手]方法是一种微型可穿戴个人监视器，大小如创可贴、按钮、手表、或者一个小吊坠，提醒个人和远程护理人员注意不安全、不舒服或不健康的情况。i-AIDE是一种可穿戴式个人监视器，带有根据个人需求量身定制的车载传感器阵列，可集成到家庭和老年人医疗保健系统的通信系统中[即本文提出的Netcarity示范家庭系统等基础设施]。目前可用的无线传感器技术和传感器变量包括T、P、RH、用于舒适度的CO2、用于室内安全的CH4、用于火灾和空气质量/健康预警的CO，以及生命体征[身体T、呼吸、脉搏血氧仪变量和血气]。第一阶段的策略是评估每个传感器的状态，以便纳入I - aide，其中一些已经可以利用合作者正在进行的项目。第二阶段生产一个beta原型，在美国的老年人家中进行测试。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed personal i-AIDE monitoring system is a platform technology that will yield multiple benefits, beginning with protecting the health of our aging population, enhancing communication to caregivers and loved ones, allowing seniors to enjoy independent living to a much greater degree and for a longer time. This will yield the additional benefits of reduced senior care costs, and increased productivity and integration into society, and reduced stress on the adult children who currently must decide between the expenses of assisted living centers and the uncertainty of allowing living alone at home in safety and comfort The i-AIDE [intelligent aide] approach is a miniature wearable personal monitor the size of a band-aid, button, wrist-watch, or small pendant that alerts the individual and remote caregivers of unsafe, uncomfortable, or unhealthy situations. The i-AIDE is a wearable personal monitor with an on-board sensor array tailored to the individual needs that is integrated into communication systems of a home and the elderly's health care system [i.e., an infrastructure such as the Netcarity demonstration home system as proposed herein]. The currently available wireless sensor technology and sensor variables that are available today include T, P, RH, CO2 for comfort, CH4 for indoor safety, CO for early warning of fire and air quality/health, and vital signs [body T, respiration, pulse-oximetry variables, and blood gases]. It will be the strategy in Phase I to evaluate the status of each of these sensors for inclusion in the i-AIDE and some are available already by leveraging ongoing programs of the collaborators. Phase II produces a beta prototype tested at homes for the elderly in the USA. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: A wearable button sized wireless health and safety monitor is developed for the elderly to enable independent living and promote the mission of NIA. The system is tested in the home of elderly linked to the community for efficacy evaluations. A new product line with scientific, social, and economic benefits results from this NIA SBIR.