System for monitoring patients with alzheimer's disease or related dementia
First Claim
1. A system for monitoring at least one person under care, comprising:
- for each person, a transmitter worn by the person and for emitting an identification signal corresponding to the person;
at least one detector, each detector being capable of detecting a distance to each person, and transmitting information corresponding to each person including the distance to the person;
a controller for receiving the information corresponding to each person from each of the at least one detector; and
database means for accumulating and amalgamating the information received by the controller.
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Abstract
A system is provided for monitoring the behavior, behavior patterns and movements of patients with Alzheimer'"'"'s, related dementia and a range of other diseases, disorders and injuries including childhood autism, attention deficit disorder (ADD), schizophrenia, severe clinical depression, brain injury, and conditions such as recovery from hip replacement surgery. The monitoring system comprises: a transmitter worn by the patient which emits an identification signal; a detector placed at a hazard or a at a location to be monitored, the detector capable of determining the distance of the patient from the detector and determining the occurrence of an incident when the distance falls below a predetermined threshold; a receiving unit for receiving the information transmitted by the detector; and database means for accumulating information received by the receiving unit. The purpose of the system is to safeguard patients from injury and to generate, accumulate and analyze data and information about these diseases, conditions and disorders.
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22 Claims
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1. A system for monitoring at least one person under care, comprising:
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for each person, a transmitter worn by the person and for emitting an identification signal corresponding to the person;
at least one detector, each detector being capable of detecting a distance to each person, and transmitting information corresponding to each person including the distance to the person;
a controller for receiving the information corresponding to each person from each of the at least one detector; and
database means for accumulating and amalgamating the information received by the controller. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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16. A system for monitoring a plurality of persons under care, comprising:
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a central database for accumulating and amalgamating information about the persons under care;
a plurality of receiving units remote from the central database, each receiving unit transmitting information about one or more persons under care to the central database;
a plurality of detectors, each detector being capable of detecting a distance to one or more persons under care, and transmitting information corresponding to each such person under care to one of the receiving units, the information corresponding to a person under care including the distance to the person; and
for each person, a transmitter worn by the person and for emitting an identification signal corresponding to the person.
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