Mobile Health for Elderly in India

Mobile Learning for Transforming Education and Improving Learning Outcomes on Agriculture in India

The teledensity in India is estimated at 74.50 per cent (January, 2014) with an increase in subscriber base each day. No other revolution in the mankind has transformed the communication scenario to the extent as done by the mobile technologies. India has the fastest growing telecom network in the world with its high population and development potential base. Education is at a critical juncture...

Mobile health monitoring for the elderly: Designing for diversity

In the field of mobile health monitoring the current most important user groups are those aged 50+. In our project senSAVE r © we developed a user interface for monitoring vital personal parameters that is specifically adapted to the needs of this group. The group is said to show less perception and control capability and has less experience in the use of information technology. More realistica...

Elderly depression in India: An emerging public health challenge.

Horizontal Inequity in Elderly Health Care Utilization: Evidence from India

Against the backdrop of population aging, this paper presents the analysis of need-standardised health care utilization among elderly in India. Based on nationally representative morbidity and health care survey 2004, we demonstrate that the need for health care utilization is indeed pro-poor in nature. However, the actual health care utilization is concentrated among richer sections of the pop...

Ubiquitous Mobile Health Monitoring System for Elderly (UMHMSE)

Recent research in ubiquitous computing uses technologies of Body Area Networks (BANs) to monitor the person's kinematics and physiological parameters. In this paper we propose a real time mobile health system for monitoring elderly patients from indoor or outdoor environments. The system uses a biosignal sensor worn by the patient and a Smartphone as a central node. The sensor data is collecte...