Elderly Healthcare Assistance Application using Mobile Phone

As people become older, people generally will
experience a health decline such as becomes weak, susceptible to
disease, decreased vision ability, etc. Therefore, special health
attention is needed for the elderly people, especially from the
family member or personal doctors / nurses. On the other hand,
the number of elderly people in the world is rapidly increase so
there’s more people will need special attention. Therefore, this
research try to develop an application on mobile phone that
could help elderly people and their family member to supervise
and monitor the health of the elderly. This application has
feature to monitor the location of the elderly, remainder to take
the medication, doctor appointment remainder, medical record
records, emergency phone to family number or personal doctor,
etc. From the experimental results of the application to the
participant and the test with the questionnaire on the prospective
users, 94% of respondents feel the application is very useful and
can run well as needed.
Keywords—Elderly; Healthcare;