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The Care@Home project, funded by the Apulia Region, aims at developing an integrated system able to monitor and collect continuously vital parameters of the elderly or frail users in order to allow patients who require specific therapies or rehabilitation activities to perform them at home. By the means of ICT technologies and mobile devices simple to be used, such as smart phones or Tablet PCs able to carry out the monitoring activity noninvasively and assess the patient’s health status at the same time, it will be therefore possible to allow frail users to live as long as possible in their own home environment and to receive assistance in remote as well. Miscellaneous testing and experimentation activities and stages are going to be undertaken over the months to come in order to develop a first prototype consisting of a solution to monitor frail person and an electronic medical record accessible via the Internet from any remote location. Project objectives and initial results concerning the experimentation stage are here introduced.
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Borrelli, G. et al. (2015). Care@Home: Methodology, Goals and Project Experimentation Activities. In: Andò, B., Siciliano, P., Marletta, V., Monteriù, A. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18374-9_29
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