An Assisted Living Home for Alzheimer’s Patient in Saudi Arabia, A Prototype
Abstract
Number of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is increasing every day. As it target and destroy brain cells. And in order to avoid the high cost of care institutions of Alzheimer’s patients, we should provide a safe environment for them. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies can provide such environments. AAL is used to supervise and assist people with disabilities who cannot rely on themselves as patients of Alzheimer’s. In this paper we present a prototype of a house that has been equipped with Arduino micro-controller to suit the Alzheimer’s patients. By monitoring the behaviour of the patients, the system will interact by sending a message for the caregiver if a risk action was detected. The evaluation of the early prototype system involved evaluating the monitoring system as well as the devices.
Keywords
AAL Alzheimer Arduino Physical computingNotes
Acknowledgment
The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for funding the work through the research group project number RGP-VPP-157. The authors would like to thank Dr.Areej Al-Wabil for her comments and support and to those who assisted in the development of the prototype: Arwa Alabdulkarim, Sarah Alyemni, Wea’am Alrashed and Noura Alhakbani.
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