Abstract
Nowadays, the European population is dealing with a serious ageing increment. It is estimated that almost half the population will be over 65 in the next decades, involving society into a vital challenge. This context is specially impacting on the healthcare industry which is facing a significant increase in service and medicine petitions. Elders daily cope with multiple medicine doses, a complex scenario due to the difficult management of drugs and affected by other factors such as solitude or neglect. In this paper a solution is introduced: a voice assistant that reminds the daily pharmacologic dosage using an autonomous system that operates without internet connection.
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This work has been partially funded by the 4IE Project (0045-4IE-4-P) and 4IE+ project (0499-4IE-PLUS-4-E) funded by the Interreg V-A Espańa-Portugal (POCTEP) 2014–2020 program, by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (RTI2018-094591-B-I00), by the Department of Economy and Infrastructure of the Government of Extremadura (GR18112, IB18030), and by the European Regional Development Fund.
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Jesús-Azabal, M. et al. (2020). Voice Assistant to Remind Pharmacologic Treatment in Elders. In: García-Alonso, J., Fonseca, C. (eds) Gerontechnology. IWoG 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1185. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41494-8_12
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