Abstract

Locating and securing an Alzheimers patient who is outdoors and in wandering is crucial to an Alzheimer patient safety. Although advances in geo tracking and mobile technology have made locating patients instantly possible, reaching them while in wandering state may take time. However, a social network of caregivers may help shorten the time that it takes to reach and secure a wandering AD patient. This study proposes a new type of intervention based on novel mobile application architecture to form and direct a social support network of caregivers for locating and securing wandering patients as soon as possible. System employs, aside from the conventional tracking mechanism, a wandering detection mechanism, both of which operates through a tracking device installed a Subscriber Identity Module for Global System for Mobile Communications Network (GSM). Keywords: Alzheimer Disease (AD), Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM), Global Positioning System (GPS), Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Electronic Geo- Tracking (EGT), Short Message Service (SMS), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Secure Digital Card (SD Card), Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), Active-Radio Frequency Identification Localization System (ARFIDLS), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Real-time Locating Systems (RTLS). Haroon Dar | Shreyansh Jain | Jyoti Shukla | V. M. Sardeshmukh"Alzheimer Patient Tracking and Alert System" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd11218.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electronics-and-communication-engineering/11218/alzheimer-patient-tracking-and-alert-system/haroon-dar

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