The SI4CARE Project: Using Wearable Devices for Assisting People with Dementia in Calabria

• DOI: 10.20944/preprints202301.0427.v2
• Publication Date: 2023-01-31T07:36:37Z
• Authors: Alessandro Gallo; Salvatore Fregola; Margherita Menon; Filomena Talarico; Stella Fragkiadaki; Dyonisya Kontaxop...; Evangelia Stanitsa; Katarina Vukojevic; Danira Matijaca; Miodrag Milikovic; Srdjan Kozetinac; Alessio Merola; Vlado Dimovski; Anamarija Kejžar; Ivan Radevic; Danica Stevovic; Vlatika Martinovic; Katjia Matesan; Roberta Matkovic; Guido Piccoli; Elena Sodano; Amanda Gigliotti; Nicola Mayera; Elisabetta Pedace; Darjia Semrov; Pietro Hiram Guzzi
• Keywords: 11. Sustainability; mathematics_computer_science_other; 3. Good health

The improvement of health and social care needs the introduction of shared solution at transnational level. The SI4CARE (Social Innovation for Integrated Health Care) project is a transnational initiative within the Adriatic-Ionian regions aiming to develop strategies to improve the current status of health and social care. The Municipality of Miglierina, a small rural town in Calabria, which is a member the project, is developing a pilot action related to the use of wearable device for monitoring people affected by dementia with the project partner Ra.Gi.. Ra.Gi. is a non-profit organization dedicated to assisting people with dementia in day care centers and so-called dementia-friendly communities. The pilot is based on the use of smart wearable devices to monitor these patients during their daily lifetime. This paper focuses on the design and implementation of the system discussing the proposed application, the strengths and weaknesses. Finally, the possibility of extending the experiment to the other Adriatic-Ionian region is presented.