STTR PHASE I: Design, Evaluation, and Feasibility Study of a Personal Assistant System

STTR 第一阶段：个人助理系统的设计、评估和可行性研究

• 批准号: 0740535
• 负责人: Sammy Yu
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Quality Care Technologies, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0740535&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; PHASE; Design; Evaluation; Feasibility

This STTR Phase I project addresses the cost of senior care using technology-assisted support. The project advances developments in sensing, object localization/tracking, and wireless communications technologies to make possible the unobtrusive supervision of basic needs of frail elderly. By implementation of a cost-effective, reliable, secure, and open software infrastructure that provides real-time interaction between elderly people and remote care providers consumers their transfers to skilled nursing facilities and improve the quality of their lives (by preserving independence). The University Of Illinois, has designed, partially developed, and evaluated a wireless-based system infrastructure, called the Personal Assistant System (PAS), that facilitates preservation of independence and quality of life of frail elderly, through time-based reminders of daily activities, non-intrusive monitoring of physiological functions and mobility profiles, and automated fall detection and emergency assistance. The current effort builds upon this initial progress with enhancements in security, reliability, ubiquity and privacy. This project will have broader impacts on critical quality-of-life issues of the baby boom generation. Indications suggest that the nation's and, moreover, the world's growing elderly population represent a ready and waiting market for this new technology. From the perspective of Social Security, by replicating services of on-site health care providers with PAS and enabling elderly people to maintain their independence, PAS will likely extend the period of time a patient remains in either the home environment or the independent living facility. The savings to society in reduced healthcare costs could be significant.

STTR 第一阶段项目利用技术辅助支持来解决老年护理的成本问题。 该项目推动了传感、物体定位/跟踪和无线通信技术的发展，使对体弱老年人的基本需求进行不引人注目的监督成为可能。通过实施具有成本效益、可靠、安全和开放的软件基础设施，在老年人和远程护理提供者之间提供实时交互，消费者可以转移到熟练的护理设施并提高他们的生活质量（通过保持独立性）。 伊利诺伊大学设计、部分开发和评估了一种基于无线的系统基础设施，称为个人助理系统 (PAS)，该系统通过基于时间的日常活动提醒来帮助保持体弱老年人的独立性和生活质量、对生理功能和活动状况的非侵入式监测，以及自动跌倒检测和紧急援助。 当前的努力建立在这一初步进展的基础上，增强了安全性、可靠性、普遍性和隐私性。该项目将对婴儿潮一代的关键生活质量问题产生更广泛的影响。 有迹象表明，美国以及世界上不断增长的老年人口代表了这项新技术的成熟和等待市场。从社会保障的角度来看，通过PAS复制现场医疗保健提供者的服务并使老年人保持独立，PAS可能会延长患者在家庭环境或独立生活设施中的停留时间。 降低医疗保健成本可为社会节省大量资金。