42 results about "Care recipient" patented technology

This embodiment of the invention consists of an apparatus or home appliance unit embodied in a hardware entity running an embedded software program connected to a server computer via a phone line or high-speed internet. At home, the apparatus communicates with an optional set of medical health monitoring devices such as but not limited to, blood pressure monitors, blood glucose meters, and pulse oximeters using wired or wireless communications methods in order to perform wellness measurement. The illustrated embodiments of the invention provide a novel user interface on the home appliance to make the system accessible to people with disabilities. The simple user interface is designed to be accessible to people who are blind or deaf or people who cannot use their hands and require an alternative interface device such as a sip & puff controller. For the hearing impaired, the interface duplicates all speech and informational sounds with text or graphic cues. For the Blind, a Rotary knob provides tactile and audio feedback as the user navigates the system options. As every clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation of the knob brings a new option into focus, the user feels the click of the knob, and hears several audio cues including an audible click, a unique musical chime and a spoken description of the selectable option. For people who cannot use their hands to rotate the knob, alternative input controller devices, (such as a sip & puff controller) are supported through wired (such as but not limited to USB) or wireless (such as but not limited to Bluetooth, Zigbee IEEE 802.15.4, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi) connections. The home unit can further monitor wellness activity of the care recipient by pegging the number of times the care recipient passes by a infra-red motion sensor. The filtering of the latter information and subsequent integration over time and comparison with historical counts per unit of time within a 24 hour period can determine the normal activity pattern for the care recipient over the previous 24 hours.

An adjustable bed that enables a Gatch mechanism to be operated in an excellent fashion to match the flexing of a care recipient's body, and that is, moreover, useable as a superior low platform bed for care recipients. To this end, a parallel link mechanism having a pair of perpendicular arms is provided in the adjustable bed as part of a sitting-up mechanism, and by always keeping these arms in a perpendicular position, the sitting-up mechanism is operated with a position removed from the surface of a lower-back board by a prescribed interval as an imaginary rotation center when the bed is driven. This prevents any slippage of the care recipient's body in relation to the platform surface, thereby suppressing the occurrence of bedsores and realizing a natural sitting-up action that takes account of the care recipient's body movement.

A server implements a caregiving social network dedicated to coordinating care between caregivers and care recipients. Profile information is recorded to assist in coordinating care, as well as targeting advertising and information material that is highly relevant to an individual user and his or her community. Users of the caregiving social network include seniors, disabled people, children, parents, volunteers, medical professionals, neighbors, military families, and pets. Users can maintain both a caregiver account to assist others, and a care recipient account for receiving assistance.

A body fluid absorption object wetting alarm method and an apparatus associated are revealed. A light wavelength sensor is disposed on a body fluid absorption unit for detecting wavelength of the body fluid absorption unit. After the body fluid absorption unit becoming wet, the wavelength thereof changes. Then warning signals are sent to the receiving and checking unit. Thus, a caregiver at a management end of the receiving and checking unit knows that the body fluid absorption object worn by a care recipient was already wet and there is a need to replace the wet body fluid absorption unit with a new one immediately.

The invention consists of a medication docking station that will accept pre-sorted medication array packages (a.k.a “blister packs”). The docking station will use digital image processing schemes to determine the state of each medication chamber. The digital image processing algorithm uses color content of a given cell (chamber) as a means to determine the state of that cell. If the color content matches that of a known empty cell, then the cell will be reported as empty, otherwise it will be determined as non-empty. The method can detect partial removal of medication pills. Also the information regarding the med-pack can be transmitted via wired or wireless means to a custom server or personal computer for further processing or forwarding to a user-client on the internet interested in adherence of a patient or care-recipient in taking medication.

Systems and methods for managing the care of care receivers using a care management system are disclosed. One embodiment includes a care management server configured to communicate with at least one care provider client, where the care provider client is configured to provide a user interface for receiving care management instructions; where the care management server is configured to receive care management instructions from the at least one care provider client and store the care management instructions in a care management database; receive data concerning the status of a care recipient and store the received data concerning the status of the care recipient in the care management database; analyze the data concerning the status of the care recipient within the care management database in accordance with the care management instructions; and send notifications to the care provider client based upon the analysis of the care management database.

Disclosed are various embodiments for systems and methods for assisting in providing care giving by one or more care givers in a care circle to a care recipient. The system has at least a central processing station, a network, at least one electronic care giver computing or mobile device, at least one care recipient communication device including of at least a wired telephone, and an interactive software package to be executed on said care giver device to facilitate monitoring of a care recipient and to communicate between a care giver device and a central processing station. A care giver provides a profile including medical history and other related care giving information to a central processing station from a care giver device and sets up interactive communications to be performed between the central processing station and the care recipient communication device.

The invention discloses a multifunctional nursing bath bed belonging to a medical nursing apparatus. The multifunctional nursing bath bed comprises a bed body, a bed plate stand, an adjustable constant-temperature heater, a double-layer bath, a sprayer, and the like. Under the circumstance of mutual cooperation of the adjustable constant-temperature heater, the double-layer bath and the sprayer, bedridden patients can be helped to carry out sauna bathing and toileting. According to the invention, difficulties of carrying out sauna bathing and toileting by the bedridden patients are solved; sauna bathing for the bedridden patients can be carried out easily by nursing staff; the nursing staff can complete nursing tasks under the circumstance of seeing no excrement such that the nursing staff are greatly liberated physically and mentally; and life quality of care recipients is improved greatly. According to the invention, the multifunctional nursing bath bed is one of the most ideal nursing tools in the world. The invention is characterized by hygiene, convenience, simple operation, strong practicality and easy realization.

An integrated caregiving management system may include one or more caregiving management backend or back office computer systems communicatively coupled to one or more handheld caregiving management devices. The handheld caregiving management devices allow caregivers to automatically track elapsed time for specific caregiving tasks logically associated with particular spaces (e.g., apartments, rooms) and/or care recipients. The caregiving management backend or back office computer systems provide for analysis of data, identification of discrepancies, and reporting of same.

The invention discloses a bed-chair integrated robot. The robot comprises a bed body part and a wheelchair part; in a bed state, the wheelchair part is butted with the bed body part to form a nursingbed; in wheelchair state, the wheelchair part is separated from the bed body part so as to form wheelchair; the bed body part comprises a bed frame, a bed head stool, a bed tail stool, a bed plate, abed head plate, a first leg connecting rod, a leg bending push rod and a bed body control box; and the wheelchair part comprises a chassis, a back lifting push rod, a lifting frame, a wheelchair plate, a second leg connecting rod, a leg lifting push rod and a wheelchair control box. The semi-automatic bed-chair integrated robot provided by the invention can realize the transferring of a care recipient from the bed to the wheelchair with only one nursing person, can realize the functions of conventional nursing beds such as lifting back and bending legs in the bed state obtained by butting, improves the comfort while ensuring the safety, and has a simple structure.

The present invention provides a system and methods for enabling care partners (120) to collaborate and assess the level of care needed by a care recipient (11) for whom they are responsible. The system provides a computer application accessible using a computing device (150) that accesses a SaaS application over the Internet. The level of abilities and needs of the care recipient are assessed by one or more care partners and an overall level of care is determined in response to the assessment determined by the care partners and input into the computer application. Historical data and trends can be monitored over time. In addition, frailty and mood factors can be taken into consideration as well for adjusting the level of care needed by the care recipient.

The invention discloses a visual sense based human health status analysis method and system. The method includes obtaining image information of a care recipient according to set frequency; obtaining the position information and expression information of the care recipient based on the image information analysis; judging whether abnormity of the physical state of the care recipient arises based onthe position information and/or expression information; and obtaining environment information if yes, and determining the health status of the care recipient based on the environment information. Thevisual sense big data based care recipient health status analysis method using intelligent nursing equipment such as intelligent wheelchairs and intelligent nursing beds can be realized; and through the acquisition of the image information of the care recipient, the position information and the expression information of the care recipient can be obtained through analysis, the health status of thecare recipient can be judged and analyzed by combining the influence of the environment information on the health status of the care recipient, and therefore, an efficient and convenient assessment mode can be provided for nursing personnel and medical diagnosis, and to enhance nursing effects and the feeling of the care recipients can be achieved.

The present application discloses a disability level evaluating method and device. The disability level evaluating method includes: acquiring life video information of a care recipient; determining anactivity ability of the care recipient according to the life video information; and then acquiring physiological indicator information of the care recipient; and inputting the activity ability and the physiological indicator information into a pre-trained disability assessment model to obtain a disability level. The disability level evaluating method and device can determine the activity abilityaccording to a pre-configured standard action library and the life video of the care recipient, and determine the disability level through the pre-trained disability assessment model and the characteristic information of the care recipient. The entire evaluation of the disability level does not require human participation, and has a uniform fixed identification and evaluation criteria; and the disability evaluation is efficient, and the evaluation result are objective.

A system and method to provide a care-based activity recommendation engine are described. The system comprises electronic storage and physical computer processors. The electronic storage stores care recipient profile information for the care recipient including information related to care needs of the care recipient and caregiver profile information including schedule information, resource information, relationship information, or location information for individual caregivers. The processor(s) are in operative communication with the electronic storage and are configured to obtain activity tasks about the care recipient. The processor(s) determine likelihood metric values for the individual caregivers for given activity tasks indicating capacity and/or likelihood of a given caregiver to perform a given activity task. The processor(s) communicate the individual activity task to the individual caregiver responsive to the likelihood metric values indicating that the individual caregiver has the capacity and/or likelihood to complete the individual activity task.

The instant disclosure relates to a wearable device for medical care. The device can be worn by the medical staff to help care recipients. The device includes a measuring module, a storing module, and a processing module. The measuring module is utilized to examine the patient in obtaining character-based information. The storing module is used to store character-based data corresponding to the obtained character-based information. The processing module is in electrical connection with the measuring and storing modules. The processing module receives the character-based information from the measuring module, and converts the character-based information into character-based data for storing in the storing module. The conversion is performed after the medical staff has obtained the character-based information of the patient via the measuring module. Thus, the care of recipients by the medical staff can be facilitated, and erroneous data record due to human input can be avoided.

A managing system for health care plan includes a server and a database connected to the server. The server hosts a website thereon, and the database stores disease data of at least one care recipient, and stores at least one health care plan template. When one of the disease data of the care recipient is selected on the website, the care provider selects one of the health care plan templates corresponding to the selected disease data, and applies the selected health care plan template to a dedicated calendar of the care recipient. Therefore, events of the health care plan template are then displayed on the calendar from a specific starting date.

This care plan creation assistance system comprises: a care plan output unit which, using a care plan output model, acquires for each care plan a probability with respect to an input of a care recipient's situation that a level of required care will improve, and outputs the care plan with the higher acquired probability; an assessment unit which assesses whether the level of required care has improved after care has been carried out upon the care recipient using the outputted care plan; a probability computation unit which, using the result of the assessment which has been performed by the assessment unit, computes anew the probability that the level of required care will be improved by the outputted care plan; and a process change unit which changes the care plan output assistance model such that the probability which is acquired for the care plan which has been outputted with respect to the input of the care recipient's situation approaches the computed probability. This care plan creation assistance system assists with the creation of a care plan by outputting, in accordance with each individual care recipient's situation, a care plan for which an improvement in a level of required care may be expected.

A remote healthcare system that incorporates a cloud based platform with a service provider having servers that store data and administrative applications for delivering healthcare features to a care recipient by an authorized member of a caretaker group where the system includes a care recipient controller at the location of the care recipient being provided the healthcare features, the care recipient controller being under primary control of the care recipient and having an internal microcontroller programmed to function as a general purpose computer to permit communications with cloud platform systems and with the care recipient, wherein the controller has circuitry to connect wirelessly and by landline to authorized members of the caretaker group, such that one authorized member of the caretaker group can remotely take control of the recipient controller as authorized by the service provider, and remotely control services to the care recipient including initiating emergency calls to 911 through the controller switch circuitry for the care recipient's landline.

A care system and an automatic care method are provided. The care system is suitable for a care recipient. A physiological condition of the care recipient can be determined by sensors arranged around the care recipient, and a health condition of the care recipient can be determined through monitoring sleep disorders thereof. The care system receives a sound of the care recipient through a sound receiver, after removing a background sound, a sound of the care recipient can be obtained, and an image sensor is used to obtain an image of the care recipient to perform a motion detection, so as to obtain a posture image of the care recipient. Artificial intelligence technology can be used to build a care-taking warning prediction model to determine whether or not the status of the care recipient has reached a warning threshold.

A nursing bed system includes a nursing bed and a nursing bed posture changing device. The nursing bed posture changing device includes care recipient data acquiring circuitry that acquires care recipient data containing at least one of voice data of a care recipient who lies on the nursing bed, and image data obtained by imaging the care recipient, bed posture information generating circuitry that generates bed posture mode information according to a demand by the care recipient based on the care recipient data, and posture changing circuitry that changes the posture of the nursing bed based on the bed posture mode information.