Development of an Integrated Health Care Environment for Elderly With RFID Technology

National Taiwan University

Status and phase: Completed; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Elderly

Treatments: Other: RFID

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00748683

20080816R

Details and patient eligibility

About

A falling prevention system will be established by RFID location and motion detection.

• Using RFID to detect participants' allocation indoor.
• Modifying environment parameters such as light, sound, to alert users if them enter a place with potential hazards.

Data exchange models will also developed in this project

• Interchanging different data including physiological data and RFID data into a database
• establishing interchange protocol according the HL7 standard

Enrollment: 15 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age above 65 year old
• Living in the Nursing home, Bei-Hu Branch, National Taiwan University Hospital
• with ability to independent ambulation (with or without assistive devices)

Exclusion criteria

• no ability to independent ambulation
• with infective diseases.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)