Smart Glove for Elderly Patients

Abstract

Each and everyone in this world should take care of elderly patients and treat them how they need to be treated. Due to aging, most of the elderly persons are facing health related issues and sent out to homes and orphanages. Elders cannot be able to visit doctors regularly to monitor health status. This article comes up with a solution for the elderly patients around by assisting them and helping them to be fearless. Here the proposed system makes use of different parameters like GPS and GSM modules, Pulse Oximeter, Accelerometer, Touch Sensor, Bluetooth that interface with the Arduino. The proposed smart glove is used to measure temperature, fall detection, pulse rate for the elderly patients, if they are facing any health-related troubles. This will help these patients to escape by altering the caretaker.