Life Support Network for Elderly People Living in a Rural Area
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In order to provide comfortable and safety life for every people in the world, information technologies will be useful in a rural area as well as in a metropolitan area. This paper proposes a new concept of Life Support Network (LSN) for elderly people living in a rural area. The network is a type of Intranet, which incorporates a safety confirmation system, a remote healthcare system, an emergency information system and other useful daily network services in the closed life area. We developed a part of the experimental LSN system and carried out a field experiment in a typical rural town “Shiwa” in the Iwate Prefecture in Japan. The system has two sub-systems of the safety confirmation system and the remote healthcare system. We clarified that the experimental LSN gave the feeling of safety to the elderly people living in the rural area. Key-Words: Information System, Healthcare System, Welfare System, Telemedicine, Life Support System, Information Network, Safety Network, Quality of Life
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