Aware Group Home: Person-Centered Care as Creative Problem Solving

An Empirical Study of an RFID Mat Sensor System in a Group Home

“…In addition to these points, caregivers are expected to deal with the elderly persons by considering their abilities and health status such as feelings and physical conditions. Takatsuka et al [1] addressed the problem of communication with people with dementia requiring person-centered care, and proposed story-making as a tool for understanding people with dementia. To accomplish person-centered care, the caregivers should pay attention to the personalities and personality changes of each elderly person.…”

“…The differences in operation due to antenna size are regulated by variable resistances in the regulating circuit box (90 mm × 50 mm × 26 mm). The RFID reader box (Figure 2, 125 mm × 80 mm × 32 mm), consists of an HHPA module developed by Sobal Corp. 1 , a power supply circuit, and a LAN module (XPort 2 ). The HHPA module is compatible with ISO15693-2 tags, and can provide an output of 1 W. The LAN module is used to report tag data to a control PC.…”

“…The reader can detect slippers within a range of 5 to 10 cm. As the stride 1 http://www.sobal.co.jp/rfid/rfid-hhpa.html 2 http://www.lantronix.jp/products/ds xport. shtml length of an elderly person is shorter and they tend to walk more slowly than a younger person, the performance of the reader/antenna is sufficient.…”

Evaluation of a Prototype of the Mimamori-care System for Persons with Dementia

“…However, according to the valley of death [1] and the Darwinian Sea [2] metaphors, laboratory results cannot be implemented directly into the real world. There are methodologies such as human-centered design [3] and user-centered design [4] that reflect users' needs, improve usability, and facilitate modification in terms of custom-made design. However, dementia care is a difficult field.…”