connected health for seniors

“It’s a fairly revolutionary tool: a connected pill dispenser. With that, it’s almost impossible to forget your medication, or to make a mistake. When it’s time to take your medication, it rings. Inside in this white box which is sealed are the pills. I unlock it with my fingerprint: that way, there’s no risk of other people, for example children, swallowing it”details Dorothée Lachaud, Friday May 26 on the 1 p.m. set. “The pill box then tells me the dose to take, in this case three tablets. If I forget, second alert: the pill box is connected to an application. The caregiver, the nurse or a loved one can therefore see remotely and in real time if the treatment is well administered. It’s very simple, just enter the prescription in the application”adds the journalist.

Fall arrest belt

Another innovation: an application can detect your respiratory rate and your heart rate, with a video taken as a selfie. “It’s invisible to the naked eye, but the heartbeat causes certain pixels in the video to change color. The same goes for the moving rib cage. So this technology manages to extract them and get your data out of them”explains Dorothée Lachaud.

The journalist also presents a fall arrest belt, “intended for the elderly, to prevent the risk, unfortunately quite frequent, of fracture of the neck of the femur”, says the journalist. Electronic components present in the loop will detect the person’s rotations and accelerations. “In the event of a fall, it sends a signal which will deploy the airbag hidden inside”describes Dorothée Lachaud.