smart health connected objects serving the elderly

smart health connected objects are at the service of all today. Whether they are intended for toddlers or to the elderly, the designers make them real objects dedicated to health.

Different equipment for existing seniors

IMedipac, MedSecure, these smart health connected pill organizers are very practical items for those who find it difficult to take their treatment at the right time. Indeed the little ones compartments of these boxes come on when it's time for the user to take his medicine. And if you forget the pillbox send an alert to loved ones or their doctor.

Now let's talk about Amulyte and Raspberry smart health connected pendants. These jewelry are simple little trackers destined for alert someone when an incident occurs. To do this, just press the button located in the center of these small accessories, a alert is sent to the user's family or their doctor.

German institutes are also working to make life easier for seniors. This is how they created a smart health connected wheelchair. Simply connect a telephone on the armchair and here you are with a smartphone as a remote control. It will be possible to perform the basic actions of a phone: call, send emails or sms. But it will also be possible to check the battery level or even search for places benefiting from access ramps and other facilities for disabled.

When a department invests in smart health connected health

The department of Loiret is about to launch its Lysbox : a communicating box which allows the remote monitoring and support for the elderly. This box can perform different readings such as room temperature (very useful during periods of heat wave or very cold).

Different data are smart health connected in order to'to alert, if necessary, relatives or carers who will also be able to establish assistance plans.

The objective of such a box being to fight against the isolation of the elderly and allow them to maintain a minimum of dependence while providing them with personalized assistance.

The New Generation Cane

New generation cane is a smart health connected cane designed by the Japanese firm Futjitsu. The object is equipped with biometric sensors which allow monitoring health status user (temperature, heart rate).

During a walk, thebuilt-in screen to display using diodes the directions to follow. The user can no longer get lost. And if the child shows signs of fatigue, the cane will tell them where to rest.

On the other hand, the company designed this cane by incorporating a GPS in order to transmit the user's location to his relatives.

The New Generation Cane should not be available before 2015.

Guard2me smart health connected watch

Guard2me is a smart health watch for people with temporo-spatial disorders. Equipped with GPS, it works both indoors and outdoors. She allows to define a perimeter in which the user can circulate. But if ever this one comes out perimeter, the watch will alert its wearer and send an SMS to his loved ones. This feature also used in the event of a fall. The user himself can send a text message to his family using a button when he feels disoriented.

Apart from its surveillance role, the Guard2me watch records important information (blood group, medication to be taken, contact details of persons to be warned, etc.) in the event that the user has an accident and cannot communicate to the emergency services.

What people think

According to a survey by BVA syntec 61% of French people say they are ready to use remote monitoring services. Regarding health specialists, opinions are divided. F Jeanson, director of the Maison com Santé Protestante com Bordeaux Bagatelle, thinks that there is " still a lot of progress to be made but tablets and other smart health connected objects can provide real support health home security, whether in the social fields (workers) or in the medical fields (transmission of information, constant readings, etc.) ".

This optimistic vision is not shared at all by some professionals who consider these objects as superfluous. “Caregivers get up every day to help these people. These kinds of objects replace their daily efforts and cause them to make less effort in their work. Especially since they bring the company that the elderly need. "

The designers are full of ideas to assist our seniors and offer them a few more years of autonomy. So, for or against objects intended for the elderly?

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