Uma arquitetura para o monitoramento de pessoas com a doença de Alzheimer

Abstract

With the current development of technologies, health has been receiving technological support for the development of studies that improve the population’s quality of life. This improvement causes an increase in the elderly population, as quality of life can increase life expectancy. Studies show that this elderly population often has diseases that hinder their activities of daily living. Alzheimer’s disease may come to limit the lives of the elderly, as it is responsible for progressive memory loss, deterioration of intelectual skills and difficulty in performing daily tasks. This paper presents Alz-HomeCare, whose solution uses the publish / subscribe model to notify events to people with Alzheimer’s Disease. Contributions to this work include: Systematic Literature Review, designed to identify key assistive technologies used to support people with dementia; a domain model involving Remote Patient Monitoring, Social Networking Services, and Event Notification Systems; the implementation of the notification engine and the applications that interact with it; and the mapping of usage scenarios. The validation of the proposal was based on the mapping of usage scenarios in relation to the notification engine. We conclude that the behaviors involved in the scenarios were solved by the Alz-HomeCare architecture.