Smart Mote-based Wireless Medication Management System for Persons with Dementia

Smart Mote-based Wireless Medication Management System for Persons with Dementia

  Medication noncompliance is a major medical problem worldwide and remains a huge challenge for modern physicians to promote patient adherence to the prescribed course of treatments. It often demands a great deal of resource in order to ensure that the correct medication is being taken by the patient at the appropriate times. In this paper, we present the subtle design and implementation issues of a novel smart mote-based wireless medication management system which can improve the rate of medication compliance among persons with dementia based on multimodal sensors, actuators and mobile phone or PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) based technology. The proposed system allows different stakeholders to automatically monitor patient"s behavior and provide adaptive assistive interventions such as prompts or reminders in the form of visual, audio or text cues for patient adherence to the medication regimen. In addition, mobile phone and PDA applications have been developed to provide a number of novel services to the caregivers that facilitate them in their care provision and also to physicians for clinical assessment of dementia patients on anytime, anywhere basis in a context enlightened fashion.