328 results about "Frail Older Adults" patented technology

The present invention is a novel child-resistant senior-friendly blister card packaging that is cheap and easy to manufacture. The packaging requires a push-peel-push method for opening, which is cognitively and physically challenging for children and mentally impaired adults. Yet, competent adults can easily open the package, especially after reading instructions. More specifically, opening the package requires the user to: 1) Push through an aperture to create a pull tab; 2) Pull on the pull tab to remove a panel; and 3) Push the blister to force the contents through the blister's seal. Furthermore, the packaging is designed to be tear resistant and to halt any propagation of a tear. Advantageously, the present invention is designed such that information such as instructions and product information can be easily printed directly on the packaging. Moreover, users may also record information directly on the packaging. Thus, the present invention not only provides child-resistant and senior-friendly features, but also provides convenience for viewing and recording information.

A child resistant senior friendly medication storage and distribution package including a blister portion and a blocking substrate sandwiched between a dispensing substrate and a backing substrate. The procedure to access the medicament is easy for an adult to understand and accomplish, yet difficult for most children. The blister portion contains a base layer and a blister layer. The blister layer includes an article receiving blister designed for holding the medicament. The dispensing substrate has a dispensing substrate blister receiver. The blister receiver is configured to cooperate with the blister so it extends through the dispensing substrate. The blocking substrate includes a gate that initially covers a portion of the blister. The gate must be moved, or slid, out of the way in order to eject the medicament. The user applies a force to the gate causing it to translate between the backing substrate and the dispensing substrate.

The present invention relates to new immunogenic compositions comprising conjugated Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular saccharide antigens (glycoconjugates) and uses thereof. Immunogenic compositions of the present invention will typically comprise at least one glycoconjugate from a S. pneumoniae serotype not found in PREVNAR®, SYNFLORIX® and / or PREVNAR 13®. The invention also relates to vaccination of human subjects, in particular infants and elderly, against pneumoccocal infections using said novel immunogenic compositions.

A wearable ultrasound device for signalling changes in human or animal body, and use of such a wearable device for signalling over a prolonged period of time. In an example the changes occur in a bladder. Such is especially relevant for elderly persons, women after delivery of a baby, lesion patients, demented people, children, and others, have a difficulty to control functioning of the bladder, and to be at the toilet on time to urinate.

The invention relates to edible nutrition oil with an intelligence developing effect. The edible oil adopts plant grease as main raw materials, and is added with DHA algal oil, arachidonic acid grease and natural antioxidant, wherein the content of DHA is 0.01-0.5 percent of the weight of the edible nutrition oil, the content of arachidonic acid is 0.015-0.75 percent of the weight of the edible nutrition oil, and the content of the natural antioxidant is 0.01-0.3 percent of the weight of the edible nutrition oil. The fatty acid proportion of the nutrition oil is reasonable, the added DHA and the added arachidonic acid have the effects of brain building and intelligence developing, promoting the growth of the retina of a baby, and the like. The natural antioxidant is soybean vitamin E with the physiological activity being higher than that of synthetic vitamin E, and the oil can be ate more safely. The edible oil is balanced in nutrition, is high-end nutrition food healthy for all people, is particularly suitable for daily eating by pregnant woman, infants, children and middle-aged and elderly people, promotes the intelligence development of fetus and infants, eliminates the brain fatigue of young and middle-aged people, and prevents senile dementia of aged and elderly people.

An apparatus for assisting an elderly or physically limited individual in walking or carrying items up or down a stairway includes a guide rail assembly fixedly positioned along the wall of a stairway. A handle is connected to a support bar assembly, and the support bar assembly attaches to the guide rail assembly. The guide rail assembly typically has a tubular inner rail fixedly housed within a tubular outer rail, the outer rail typically includes a guide track along its length, and the inner rail typically includes a pin slot which aligns with the guide track. To operate the apparatus, the user grasps the handle while supporting the upper body on the support bar and moves the support bar assembly along the guide track while walking along the stairway. The handle and support bar assembly can be placed into a braking position as needed while moving along the stairway. The apparatus is adaptable to any home, can help stabilize someone who has difficulty walking, and can provide assistance for carrying items such as laundry or groceries up or down the stairs.

The present invention discloses a cloud technology-based elderly people service center intelligent integrated management platform. According to the cloud technology-based elderly people service center intelligent integrated management platform, a perfect elderly people nursing service system is built; an actual informationized and intelligentialized intelligent elderly people nursing community can be created; the comprehensive application of cloud computing and cloud service modern information technology and an automated intelligent system is enhanced; and multisystem integration is carried out. With the unified management platform adopted, the applicability, security, convenience, energy-saving performance and comfort of an elderly people service center can be improved; the modernization, digitization and intellectualization level of the management of the elderly people service center can be improved; the management level and service standards of the elderly people service center can be comprehensively enhanced; the growing needs for elderly people nursing services of elderly people can be satisfied; the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly people can be benefitted; protection and improvement of people's livelihood can be benefitted; and social harmony and sustained and healthy economic and social development can be promoted.

The invention provides an intelligent elderly care monitoring and early warning system based on a digital twinning technology. The invention relates to the field of intelligent elderly care. The system comprises a physical space unit, a data acquisition and recognition unit, a data analysis unit, a virtual space unit and a risk early warning unit. The physical space unit comprises a plurality of distributed physical scenes. The data acquisition and recognition unit comprises a data monitoring module, a face recognition module and a human body behavior recognition module. The virtual space unitdisplays the physical model state of the elderly in a scene in real time at the cloud through a three-dimensional visualization engine. The system aims at communities and home-based care physical environment places, visual display is carried out on actions and movement tracks of falling, sedentariness, squatting, buttress and the like of the elderly, alarm and early warning are carried out on theabnormal high-risk state of the elderly, virtual-real mapping and deep-level information physical fusion of the elderly care scene are realized, and thus the fine management level of communities andhouseholds is improved.

WholeCare is a holistic communications hub for all those involved in looking after one person or patient. The system streamlines and facilitates communication among the family, doctors and caregivers, so stress is lessened and time saved for all parties, and quality of life is improved for the person who needs care. WholeCare's platform and approach addresses widespread inconsistencies in communication. As healthcare needs grow in complexity and cost, WholeCare will meet the needs of the elderly living at home by engaging their families and caregivers in a unique, efficient, user-friendly and comprehensive manner.

The present invention is directed to a can lid that is child resistant, and at the same time senior friendly, and can be initially installed on a can to be removed by an adult, especially a senior adult, and be put back on the can in the same condition where a child could still not be able to easily remove it. The child resistant and senior friendly can lid provided has a replaceable can lid and a locking member, such that when a can is initially opened, it may be readily resealed. The child resistant and senior friendly can lid has tapered, smooth sides to make the lid difficult to grasp and a sealing ledge on the inside surface to grab the seam roll of the upper edge of the can. The lid sealing ledge is relieved in two areas ninety degrees apart leaving a ridge to maintain a seal when the lid is attached to a can. The can lid will be flexible enough to bend for removal by seniors but resistant to removal by children.

A cover for a truck bed that can be horizontally traversed between expanded and collapsed positions is shown. Since the cover is horizontally traversed, the person manipulating the cover need not lift the cover vertically in order to reconfigure the cover between the expanded and collapsed positions. Women and elderly people who are generally not as strong as men can manipulate the cover.

A person who is elderly, requires care, or an inpatient who is under the care by his or her family members, a nursing care worker, or a nurse in a hospital or medical institution must be monitored constantly, however the caregiver cannot be in attendance on the patient all the time. A biosignal intensity measuring method is provided to solve the above problem. According to the measuring method, output signals from a noninvasive sensor, which detects biosignals from a lying subject, are amplified and noises other than the biosignals are attenuated via a signal amplifying / shaping unit, and the amplified signals are controlled by an automatic gain control (AGC) unit to have sizes within a prescribed range, then parameters acquired by signal gains in a control circuit upon carrying out automatic gain control are output as the output signal intensity of the biosignals to calculate biosignal intensity. A bedding state monitoring method is also provided. According to the monitoring method, the calculated signal intensity is used to monitor the bedding state of the subject, such as a state of being in or out of bed, of weakening or stoppage of biosignals, of body motion, or the like.

A method on a computing device for enhancing the memory and cognitive ability of an older adult by requiring the adult to differentiate between rapidly presented stimuli. The method utilizes a sequence of phonemes from a confusable pair which are systematically manipulated to make discrimination between the phonemes less difficult or more difficult based on the success of the adult, such as processing the consonant and vowel portions of the phonemes by emphasizing the portions, stretching the portions, and / or separating the consonant and vowel portions by time intervals. As the adult improves in auditory processing, the discriminations are made progressively more difficult by reducing the amount of processing to that of normal speech. Introductory phonemes may each include a blend of a formant-synthesized phoneme and an acoustically naturalistic phoneme that substantially replicates the spectro-temporal aspects of a naturally produced phoneme, with the blends progressing from substantially natural-sounding to substantially formant-synthesized.

The invention provides instant food suitable for the middle-aged and elderly people and a processing method thereof. The instant food is characterized in that the instant food is prepared by cooking,grinding and mixing such raw materials as glutinous rice, brown rice, corns, soybeans, kaoliang, black sesame, black beans, barley kernels, yams, myotonin, walnut kernels, white sesame and tea plant flowers. The instant food can improve immunity, resist aging and supplement trace elements, thus being especially suitable for the middle-aged and elderly people. Besides, the instant food is convenient to be eaten and low in cost, and has no toxic side effects.

The invention discloses a method for screening, evaluating and intervening senile syndromes of hospitalized senile patients, which comprises the following steps of: comprehensively screening the senile syndromes of the senile patients; carrying out special assessments including pressure sore risk degree, disability degree, emotional disorder degree, sleep quality, cognitive disorder degree, malnutrition degree, dysphagia degree, defecation and urination, social support, pain, delirium, tumble, sarcopenia, weakness, body diseases and the like; and making individualized intervention suggestions according to the evaluation conclusion. According to the invention, elderly health management is associated with different states of diseases, an elderly syndrome intelligent management method is provided for elderly patients in a targeted manner, and disease hierarchical management and continuous service are realized. The method comprises a complete process of health information collection, disease and function evaluation, intervention opinions and follow-up visits, so that the method can be widely popularized as a special diagnosis and treatment technical method of the elderly medical inpatient department, and can enable the elderly to obtain better standard, effective and homogenized services.

We have discovered novel methods and systems for detecting cognitive impairment in a subject by analyzing the level of xantophylls in macula lutea or red blood cell sample from the subject. We have discovered that decrease of xanthopyll level in the subject is indicative of cognitive impairment.

The invention relates to a standing assisting wagon with a combined type seat plate. The standing assisting wagon comprises a bottom frame, a seat plate assembly mounted on the bottom frame and an upper arm bracket, wherein support rear wheels and universal front wheels are fixed to the bottom frame; a first supporting pillar is also fixed to the bottom frame; the upper arm bracket is hinged to the first supporting pillar through a moving arm, and is driven by a first electric push rod to swing; and armpit brackets and handles are arranged on the upper arm bracket. When an elder rises and stands up, the upper limbs are supported to the armpit brackets, and the handles are gripped by hands, so that the body is kept stable; the feet can step on a bottom plate, a left assembly with a left seat plate and a right assembly with a right seat plate are jointed towards the center; and the two seat plates are horizontally and correspondingly arranged to provide support for sitting and standing of the elder, and the elder can move along with the wagon. The standing assisting wagon disclosed by the invention can assist the elder which is low in walking capacity to stand and move, and meets therequirements of the elder to perform indoor and outdoor moving and physical exercise, so that the workload of nursing staff or family members is reduced, and the life self-care capacity and life quality of the elder are improved.

The invention discloses health-care sour milk for elderly people and a production method thereof, and belongs to the field of foods. The health-care sour milk for elderly people solves the problem that nutritional ingredients of the existing sour milk can not satisfy health care demands of elderly people. The production method comprises that basic materials of milk, soybean meal and Chinese yam flour are fermented by a bifidobacterium-containing strain to produce the health-care sour milk for elderly people, wherein the basic materials can be added with red jujube juice, wolfberry, plant stanol ester, one or more prebiotics, dietary fibers, sugar, xylitol, a sweetener and stabilizing agents. The health-care sour milk for elderly people has the advantages that soybean powder and milk are mixed and then are fermented so that animal proteins and vegetable proteins are combined perfectly, and wolfberry, Chinese yam, jujubes and plant stanol ester are used as auxiliary materials and thus the health-care sour milk for elderly people has balanced nutrition, full health-care functions and a good taste and can be stored at a temperature of -2 to -6 DEG C for more than 20 days.

The invention relates to formula milk powder for middle-aged and elderly people. Every 100g of the formula milk powder comprises the following components in grams by weight: 46-60 g of whole milk powder; 27-40 g of skimmed milk powder, 3-7.5 g of dietary fiber, 0-0.5 g of docosahexaenoic acid grease, 0.2-1.0 g of milk mineral salt, 0.4-5 g of phytosterol ester, 0.015-0.02 g of selenium-enriched yeast, 0.1-0.2 g of a compound vitamin premix and 0.1-0.2 g of a compound mineral premix. The product is designed according to physiological characteristics and nutritional requirements of middle-aged and elderly people, and soluble dietary fiber-inulin, precious natural calcium raw material-milk mineral salt in whey, organic selenium-selenium-enriched yeast and phytosterol ester with a blood fat reducing function are added, so that the intestinal health of the middle-aged and elderly people is cared; bone mineral density of middle-aged and elderly people is maintained, and osteoporosis is prevented; and cholesterol, blood pressure and blood fat in blood are reduced.

The present invention is directed to a protective hat suitable for every day wear by infants, children, senior citizens or physically disabled individuals. Such hat protects at least the sides, top or rear of the wearer's head from injuries due to falls or bumps against hard objects while conducting routine, daily activities. Generally, the head protector of the present invention may comprise: (1) a cap member: and (2) one or more flexible, resilient shock absorbent pads. The cap member may be constructed so as to fully enclose and / or encapsulate the one or more pads.

The invention discloses a health product capable of regulating health of heart and cerebral vessels and reducing risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and belongs to the field of health products. The health product disclosed by the invention comprises the following active ingredients in parts by weight: 1-30 parts of L-arginine, 10-100 parts of hawthorn extract, 10-100 parts of rhizoma anemarrhenae extract and 10-100 parts of astaxanthin. The components in the formula are synergetic, the effect of preventing and treating the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases is greatly achieved, and the product is safe and high in effective rate, does not have any toxic or side effect and is an optimal dietary supplement for preventing and treating the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases for middle aged and elderly people.

The invention relates to a new milk powder product for the elderly, which takes soybean peptide as the protein supplementary source and belongs to the field of nutritious food. Small-molecular soybean peptides are taken as part of the protein source to prepare the high-protein and high-nutrition soybean peptide strengthening milk powder for the elderly with various carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and other ingredients. The product is made of 50-90 portions of fresh milk, 4-10 portions of soybean peptide powder, 4-10 portions of maltodextrin, 1-1.5 portions of calcium carbonate, 1-2 portions of whey powder, 4-6 portions of soy bean oil, 0.5-1 portion of complex nutrition enhancer and 0.1-0.5 portion of soybean lecithin through a special technique, which can meet the nutritional needs of the elderly with declined digestion function and malnutrition and can promote the absorption of minerals, inhibit oxidation, delay aging and reduce high blood pressure; therefore, the product is a high-nutrition, easy-absorption and multi-functional health-care milk powder for the elderly.

The invention relates to a turning-over bed or multi-functional nursing wheelchair-bed composed of a lying wheelchair and bed plates. The turning-over bed or multi-functional nursing wheelchair-bed comprises the lying wheelchair, bed plates and turning-over components. The surfaces of the chair or the bed for turning-over are in comb-shape with teeth arranged against one another, and the ends of the teeth are coaxially hinged to corresponding brackets. Bed-chair connecting brackets or movable bed plates are arranged, a turning-over power mechanism composed of the turning-over components is arranged on the bed-chair connecting brackets or the movable bed plates, and the turning-over action is achieved by fine methods. With the utilization of mature technology of fully flat wheelchair and turning-over nursing bed, the reliable structure and components applied on the wheelchair and turning bed are combined skillfully and uniquely, the wheelchair and the bed-chair connecting brackets can be connected and disconnected conveniently, the patient can respectively use the handy wheelchair or sleep on a wide bed without leaving the wheelchair, so that all the functions of standing, sitting, lying, rotating, pumping legs, defecation, washing hair, moving and rehabilitation training are achieved and a major problem of nursing and rehabilitating the elderly and limb-disordered patients is solved.

The invention discloses a service system for old people behavior health, and belongs to the field of the computer science and technology. On the basis of a situation that the daily behavior data of old people who live in a nursing home is collected by the technology of Internet of things, calculus, statistics, an artificial intelligence algorithm, a deep learning technology and the like are used for analyzing and researching the behavior data of the old people. The similarities and differences of the individual behavior data and the group behavior data of the old people are analyzed to find the general activity rule of the old people, a health model is established, the behavior data is combined with the health model to judge the health condition of the old people, the old people who suffer from mental disorder and physical illness are screened, the behavior data of the old people who suffer from the mental disorder and the physical illness is compared with the behavior data of normal old people to find the characteristics of abnormal individuals, and certain assistance and advices based on big data are provided for social old-age care and the recovery and treatment work of chronic diseases. The technology is high in maneuverability, and is especially suitable to use in the pension work of the nursing home and the research work of the chronic diseases of specialized hospitals.

The invention discloses a residential area supporting facility convenience metering method based on POI data. The residential area supporting facility convenience metering method is provided by takingthe elderly as the center and considering the requirement degree of the elderly for supporting facilities, and mainly comprises the following steps: processing urban POI data; constructing a trafficnetwork model; establishing a service area by taking the walking distance of the residential area of the 15-minute living circle as a constraint; carrying out weighting according to the demand degreeof the elderly people for the supporting facilities, and calculating the convenience of the supporting facilities in each residential area; carrying out spatial aggregation analysis on the convenienceof supporting facilities in each residential area, and using the result as a basis for updating a time sequence of a community. According to the method, the accuracy of the evaluation method for theelderly care livable community supporting facilities is improved, the scientificity of urban community updating time sequences and public facility planning decisions is improved, and blindness and subjectivity are avoided.

The invention discloses a natural oyster calcium preparation for prevention and treatment of calcium deficiency disease and a preparing method thereof for the first time. A natural oyster calcium compound with calcium carbonate as a main component is separated or extracted from oyster shells, and has the effect of preventing and treating calcium deficiency disease. The preparing method of the calcium preparation mainly comprises the steps of carrying out carbonization, activation, expansion, carbonization and drying of the oyster shells, and smashing and sieving an extract to extract the calcium compound with calcium carbonate as the main component, and the calcium compound belongs to the natural extract and can be used for supplementation of calcium for children, pregnant women and the elderly; compared with a technology for preparing calcium carbonate from raw material limestone, the technology process is equivalent, but the produced calcium carbonate compound has higher purity, is used for preparing granules and chewable tablets and has higher bioavailability.

The invention discloses a method for predicting fall risk of elderly people. The method comprises the following steps: dividing a plantar pressure area into a hallux area, a second-fifth toe area, a forefoot area, a middle foot area and a heel area; dividing a support phase into an initial contact section, an initial metatarsal bone grounding section, an initial forefoot flat section, a heel off-ground section and a final contact section; then, based on the plantar pressure areas and the supporting phase, carrying out plantar pressure testing on a subject by using a Footscan plantar pressure flat plate testing system so as to obtain pressure change curves of the different plantar pressure areas in all supporting phase periods; constructing a deep neural network model by using a convolutional neural network and a recurrent neural network, training the prediction model, and selecting an optimal prediction model as a foot pressure prediction model; and finally, inputting the pressure change curves into the foot pressure prediction model to obtain a prediction value. The method has the characteristics of high data measurement precision, various characteristic indexes and good prediction accuracy.

The invention provides a nutritional composition capable of improving motion system functions of the elderly people and a preparation method thereof. The nutritional composition capable of improving the motion system functions of the elderly people is composed of the following ingredients in parts by weight: 10-15 parts of whey protein, 0.5-1 part of whey protein peptides, 0.5-1 part of wheat protein peptides, 2-10 parts of collagen peptides, 0.05-0.15 part of casein phospho peptides, 2-5 parts of leucine, 0.5-3 parts of beta-hydroxy-beta-butyric acid, 0.5-1 part of calcium, 0.2-0.5 part of magnesium, 5-20 parts of chicken breast cartilage meal, 0.1-0.5 part of chitosan oligosaccharide, 0.5-2 parts of dimethyl sulfone, 0.1-1 part of curcumin, and 0.02-0.15 part of a vitamin mixture. The nutritional composition is capable of supplementing nutrients according to functional state of the motion system of the elderly people in a targeted way on basis of system nutrition theories. And thus, overall health of the motion system of the elderly people can be promoted under synergistic actions of the functional effects of the nutrients.