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

描述(申请人提供)：拟议的个人i-aide监测系统是一种平台技术，将产生多种好处，从保护我们老龄化人口的健康开始，加强与照顾者和亲人的沟通，让老年人在更大程度上和更长时间内享受独立生活。这将带来额外的好处，减少老年护理成本，提高生产率和融入社会，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允许独自生活在家中安全和舒适之间做出选择。i-aide[智能助手]方法是一种微型可穿戴个人监视器，大小为创可贴、按钮、手表或小挂件，可提醒个人和远程照顾者不安全、不舒服或不健康的情况。I-AIDE是一种可穿戴的个人监视器，具有为个人需求量身定做的机载传感器阵列，该传感器阵列被集成到家庭和老年人健康护理系统的通信系统中(即，诸如本文所建议的Netcarity演示家庭系统的基础设施)。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]。第一阶段的战略是评估每个传感器的状态，以包括在I-AIDE中，一些传感器已经通过利用合作者正在进行的计划而可用。第二阶段生产在美国养老院测试的测试版原型。 公共健康相关性：为老年人开发了可穿戴按钮大小的无线健康和安全监测器，以支持独立生活，并促进NIA的使命。该系统在与社区相连的老年人家中进行测试，以进行疗效评估。这种NIA SBIR产生了一条具有科学、社会和经济效益的新产品线。

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.