Improving the Quality of Life for Elderly by Adapting to Each Specific User

This paper presents the Confidence system, which aims to prolong independent life of the elderly. It accomplishes this with a set of intelligent modules that recognize falls and general disabilities, and inform the emergency services when a hazardous situation is detected. This way the elderly do not require constant caregivers’ monitoring and are not forced to leave their homes since they are confident that they will receive assistance when needed. The Confidence modules adapt to each particular user by initialization before the first use. The initialization requires recordings of several user activities. The results show that the accuracy of the system significantly increases if the modules are properly initialized. Keywords-Confidence, elderly care system, fall recognition, general disability recognition, adaptation to the end user, active