Using IoT technology for monitoring Alzheimer’s and elderly patients

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurological disorder that results in the death of brain cells, causing memory loss, behavioral changes, and cognitive impairment. It drastically affects individual’s work social life, often leading to death, now sixth cause mortality worldwide. AD patients have limited mobility, which restricts their movement outside homes. Thankfully, new internet things (IoT) applications made it possible monitor people with various illnesses everyday lives, providing valuable assistance caregivers. This study aims create an IoT prototype can locate patient real time remind them take medication on schedule via alarm. The small, lightweight, portable carrier has NodeMCU-23DSP board, Neo-06 global positioning system (GPS) module, wireless modem/Wi-Fi router. Remote follow-up through Blynk 2.0 application computers Android devices allows for monitoring patient’s regimen daily activities. As struggle organization, prototype’s design enables course medication, making easier caregivers provide necessary assistance. was tested demonstrate its efficiency performance.